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To: Carlos Blanco who wrote (10602)6/29/1997 6:40:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton   of 24154
 
It's ridiculous to say that his measurements are invalid because
he doesn't have the source code or our internal specs--no benchmarks would ever be released for any product if these were requirements. A VM is just a program that takes an input, and produces an output. Given two VMs that produce the same output on the same input (in this case, CaffeineMark), if one VM scores higher than the other, then it's simply faster. I'm sorry if this conflicts with the religious dogma that Microsoft is incapable of producing something that's better than its competitors.

I, for one, was not disputing that the Microsoft VM runs faster on Windows than Netscape's. What I was trying to do is to find out why. Now maybe that's proprietary, and, if so, just say so. If not, why tell us why instead of giving all this BS about valid measurements and scientific method.

In the science courses I took, the professor taught that the way you do an experiment is by isolating the variable you want to measure and holding all the other variables constant. So, if you want to isolate the reason why Microsoft's VM runs faster than Netscape's you have to know about the differences between Microsoft's VM and how it interacts with Windows and Netscape's VM and how it interacts with Windows. Only with that knowledge can you isolate the diffences one by one and see which ones account for the difference. Until Microsoft is willing to disclose this information, they should not get too preachy about whose "scientific methods" are valid and whose are not.
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