Bench1 is a benchmark for the transcendental functions I found on the LiDIA home page. Some of its tests are not good because they fall into pitfalls of some systems (for example exp(log(2)) is not a good test because in CLN, exp(x) begins by computing x mod log(2)). Also it fails to benchmark the most basic operations: multiplication and division. Bench2 is a benchmark jointly designed by the LiDIA and CLN developers to overcome these flaws.