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From: brinkema@fjc.GOV (John R. Brinkema)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
Subject: RTE vs 'batch' benchmarks
Summary: How differernt *are* they?
Keywords: RTE, batch
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Date: 24 Jun 91 14:57:40 GMT
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It is generally conceded that RTE (remote terminal emulators) are superior
to 'batch' benchmarks (eg. scripts that are read from standard-in on the same
machine that is running the benchmark): RTEs don't load the system down with
testing overhead.

Does anyone have any experience, numbers, rules of thumb that indicate *how
different* RTE results are from batch?  Are we talking about small percents or
order of magnitude differences?  tnx.  jb.