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From: ir462@sdcc6.UUCP (ir462)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Delphi Mac Digest V2 #11
Message-ID: <2495@sdcc6.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 16:06:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 16:06:03 1986
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Summary: Is this benchmark appropriate?

> Subject: Hard Disk Benchmark
> Date: 21-MAR 05:48 Hardware & Peripherals
>  
> [summary of benchmark procedure
>
> [some test results...]
>
> I encourage those with access to other hard disks to report results with this
> benchmark.

As a Mac Plus owner I find these results surprising since I have noticed
considerably superior performance of my machine to that to non-plus Macs
I have used.  In particular, I have found the disk cache to be quite
useful when running large applications (e.g. Excel, MacDraw) which
normally do a fair amount of segment swapping.  I suspect that the
structure of the disk cache is such that it does not help much with the
type of disk access that this benchmark performs.

Note:  I am aware that the primary intention was to test hard disks, but
the results caught my eye.

Ethan Munson
UCSD CS undergraduate
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