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- From: GREG@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU (Tigger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Digital News and Review's irresponsible attitude
- Message-ID: <01GOPGZXNVNI91WH53@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 01:45:59 GMT
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- richard@npri6.npri.com <Richard Head> writes:
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- > Perhaps they are irrelevant to you. Believe it or not, some people
- > (obviously not quite the established Computer Scientist you are)
- > like to make comparison to a REFERENCE STANDARD (SPECmarks), so they can
- > compare machines, regardless of vendor.
-
- Then they are fools. No benchmark ever invented, including your vaunted
- SPECmarks, has ever had any relevance to the real world. Get demo units
- of the machines that you are interested in and run your applications on
- them. Only then will you have some basis on which to judge a purchase.
-
- > The point is, you academic flunky, that MicroVUPs are MACHINE
- > SPECIFIC. SPECmarks are machine and platform independent.
-
- So what? You can quote SPECmarks all day long, and it still won't mean
- anything to me if you're trying to compare a DOS machine to a VAX 6000.
- And it won't have any relevance to the kind of work I do with either machine?
- I have a little C program that calculates pi to ten thousand decimal places
- that can be compiled on any machine with an ANSI C compliant compiler. That
- makes it platform independant. But are the results meaningful? Not unless
- all you want to do all day is integer math and boolean logic in a tight loop.
- Benchmarks are *USELESS*.
-
- Oh, and your insults definately make your argument much more persuasive.
-
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