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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (142610)9/1/2001 11:27:54 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Re: Don't pretend that SPEC95 isn't legitimate

SPEC95 binaries compiled before P4 or Athlon were released are very legitimate for testing the processors.

Have you ever heard of a double-blind test? What Intel has been doing with benchmarks is like the cigarette companies gathering together a bunch of 80 year olds who smoked all their lives and announcing "if smoking isn't safe, how come all these smokers lived to be 80?" That's why I don't trust benchmarks tuned to a processor and developed with it in hand.

Binaries using algorithms that were selected after Intel spent millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours figuring out what made P4 look good, (as opposed to what reflected typical use and practice) and then tweaked at an assembler level to favor P4 even further, are not valid.
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