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From: pb@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (P. Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Neal Nelson Benchmarks
Message-ID: <460@ssp4.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 1 Mar 90 15:20:59 GMT
References: <196@zds-ux.UUCP> <2557@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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In article <2557@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> steves@conan.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Steve Schlesinger) writes:
>In article <196@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
>>I have just been going through a bunch of marketing hype for Neal
>>Nelson.  He claims that his "Business Benchmark" measures how
>>  [ paragraph deleted ]
>>
>>Gerry Gleason
>
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>	The following is only my opinion 
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This is valid for me too!!!!!!!!

>
> I do not have a very high opinion of the NN Benchmarks.

I do think so to , and to add another argument to the ones mentinioned in
the previous postings:
All times measured in the benchmark are measured with a 1 second resolution.
This means that fasts tests that will only take a few seconds will have
a bad accuracy. So when you see comparison between machines this this into
account. For instance text x takes 5 seconds on machine A and 7 on machine B.
The difference is (7 - 5 )    / 7    = 28.6 %
This might be     (7.99 - 5 ) / 7.99 = 37.4 % or
                  (7 - 5.99 ) / 7    = 14.4 %

Draw your own conclusions:
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>	The preceding is only my opinion
>	It does not reflect the opinion of my employer or
>	any other person or organization.
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Again this is valid for me as well.



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