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From: paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Just how fast are these things, anyway?
Keywords: Speed, GL, Benchmarks
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Date: 3 May 91 17:36:19 GMT
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In article <558@rosie.NeXT.COM>, daves@martha (Dave Springer) writes:
|> When I say "how fast" I mean how many 10-pixel marketing lines can  
|> you _really_ get from a client app to the screen
...
|> Obviously I can get some numbers from the marketing  
|> literature, but I get enough lies as it is.

My experience is that numbers which come out of SGI marketing
are reproducible on a typical machine.  Of course, running
makes and several GL apps simultaneously will trash a benchmark.
But it doesn't take odd configurations, special software, or
eye of newt in the dead of night to get published numbers
from an Iris 4D.  Carefully writing a simple C test should do it.

-- 

		-Tom
*****
Opinions are mine, etc.