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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Can we avoid speculating until the TT actually ships, please?
Message-ID: <5440123@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 90 20:41:04 GMT
References: <1990Jun6.212710.15236@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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| >Well, there are some good benchmarks... Darek Mihocka just uploaded to 
| >GEnie his report on benchmarks he ran on the TT at it's Canadian unveiling. 
| 
| This is *exactly* why I say we won't get good benchmarks until it
| ships. We don't have any/enough details about the benchmarks he ran...
| and I won't be satisfied until I can run my benchmarks myself.
| ...
| That comment isn't useful until we get an idea of what the benchmark
| does. Disk I/O? Screen I/O? Floating point? Compute-intensive integer
| operations?

I erroneously assumed people would recognize Darek Mihocka as co-author 
of the Quick Index benchmark utility for the ST, and therefore surmise 
he used that as the basis of his report.  Darek's report contains some 
very specific numbers for the specific areas his program tests. People
interested in relatively hard information on the TT will find the report
interesting. Since it is copyrighted, I must refer those people to GEnie.

Disclaimer: The opinions above are solely those of the author, who has no
            pecuniary interest in any of the companies mentioned.

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