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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: landmark & SI speed test, are they real ????
Keywords: si,landmark
Message-ID: <260E5FB8.5636@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 26 Mar 90 18:30:16 GMT
References: <4550@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <4550@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_arm@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Roslan MdZaki) writes:
$Has anybody ever tried using landmark speed test or si speed test  ???
$Are they the perfect measurement of your system's perfomance ?? I am using

   No.  Any benchmarks, and Norton's SI is infamous for this, will only
accurately reflect the performance of the computer when executing a program
made up of a particular mixture of instructions.  How well the benchmark
reflects reality is determined by how well the designer chose the mixture
of instructions to include in the benchmark.  Norton apparently did a
poor job; it exaggerates the performance of non-8088 machines.

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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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