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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ACCELERATOR - ZIP OR TRANSWARP?
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Date: 17 May 91 22:45:03 GMT
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>        The same CPU is being used, just different speeds and caches...
>Seems like standard benchmarks should work.. you're running the EXACT same
>code on both.
>--
>/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu       Apple IIGS Forever!       
>unknown@cats.ucsc.edu\

It should work, but.......

The trouble is isolating the points you want to test. Which is more efficient
at dealing with cache misses for instance. Also, do these tests accurately
realte to real world applications. It is possible that the points tested have
no real effect in the real world. 

I think some sample benchmarks posted to comp.sources.apple2 would be a good
first step. Nothing fancy, jsut simple APW shell utilties that test specific
features.

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