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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can I Trust Performance Results?
Summary: Remember what you are measuring.
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Date: 17 Oct 89 21:04:26 GMT
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In article <3931.253b0031@uwovax.uwo.ca> les@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
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>Can these measurements be trusted?

What you are measuring is how well your computer runs benchmarks. This may or
may not have anything to do with how well your computer will perform on the
tasks you actually use it for.

With the obsession for ever higher benchmark numbers, if I was writing a
compiler (for example), I'd make sure it did well on the standard benchmarks.
It might end up performing well on other programs, too...

>Les Flodrowski                                   CA: les@vaxi.uwo.CA

...laura