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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
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- Subject: Re: Speed: 68040 vs. 68060
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 18:33:25
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- In article <19960228.652C38.1B4E@ak138.du.pipex.com> m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
-
- > : > : Not necessarily in this case. What I meant is that the timing routines may
- > : > : include time spent on other tasks.
- > : >
- > : > That's irrelevant. The intention is to see how long the algorithms take on a
- > : > real system (in real time, not in CPU time). On a real system, running a real
- > : > application, you will also have other tasks "stealing" CPU time, which
- > : > increases the real time taken to complete a task.
- > :
- > : On a real system, you will usually want to do several things at the same time
- > : (even if it's just for hiding I/O latencies). So whether or not a system is
- > : multitasking is hardly irrelevant.
- >
- > I didn't say it was. The difficulty is that if you only measure the CPU time
- > taken and not the real time, then you are effectively ignoring the fixed
- > overheads present on that system, which could in some cases give a very
- > distorted measure of real performance.
- >
- > These benchmarks were designed to test an OS / hardware combination. The
- > documentation makes this very clear. Only measuring the CPU time taken would
- > remove any consideration of the OS from the results.
-
- You're right, of course. But I still feel that comparing single-tasking systems
- against multitasking ones in a benchmark like this will flatter the
- single-tasking ones, and this should be taken into account by a _user_
- interpreting the results. Even if the raw performance measurements can be
- argued to be fair, the single-tasking systems cannot in general live up to the
- expectations created by their benchmark performance.
-
- If you spend a lot of time on I/O, for instance (not unusual I'd say :-) then
- performing two tasks simultaneously on a multitasking system can be done faster
- than doing them sequentially as you're forced to do in a single-tasking
- environment. Yet the BYTE benchmark would report the single-tasking system to
- be faster in that case!
-
- [ Notable exception here is Windows 95 which has been reported to perform
- *worse* when multitasking than performing the two tasks sequentially ]
-
-
- > -- Mat.
-
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