From: alleyne@teecs.UUCP (Adrian Alleyne)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 1991 20:33:36 GMT
Subject: X11perf and TPC benchmark Questions
Message-ID: <25770001@teecs.UUCP>
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
Path: utzoo!censor!teecs!alleyne
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks

Hi,

I have a couple of questions regarding benchmarks that I hope
someone can answer.

 1.  In Digital Review's DRlabs on workstations they are using the
     geometric mean of the results obtained on the x11perf benchmark.
     Is there a obvious reason why the geometric mean would or should
     be used on the x11perf (operations/sec) results as opposed to the
     arithmetric mean?


  2.  I need information on the transaction processing benchmarks, TPC
      B and TPC C. Who audits the benchmarks, are the results published, and
      are there any limitations (general) to these benchmarks that I should
      watch out for? 

Please email answers, thanks.



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