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From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
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Subject: Re: About PP-80 R4...
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Date: 1 Jun 91 14:50:49 GMT
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warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:

[ some benchmarks numbers.... ]

>What do these numbers mean?  I'm very interested in the IIci benchmark;

 They're just numbers to compare the performances of machine against
each other. As ParcPlace wrote on page 57 in their "Advanced Programming
User Guide":

 "The median harmonic mean of the SystemBenchmark default test suite is
the standard benchmark score used by ParcPlace personnel when comparing
system performance in different operating configurations."

 And(!!!!!):

 "The test suite differs from the suite used in prior releases of
Objectworks \ Smalltalk, so the scores cannot be compared across
versions meaningfully."

SystemBenchmark is part of the Smalltalk/Objectkit package made by
ParcPlace.

 Marten

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