Elmer,
I agree with you in that a more complete comparison can only be made when both have access or their own optimized code, which may not be the same for both processors.
You are right you buy your computer for the sole purpose of running the Specint benchmark.
However, if you actually want to use the computer for something productive, you have to do what commercial software vendors do to generate their executables - which is use one executable.
You don't get a whole collection, one optimized for Pentium, another for Pentium MMX or PPro, PII, PIII, PIII Coppermine, Celeron, Celeron A, AMD K6, K6-2, K6-3, K7, Cyrix, IDT or whatever.
Joe |
