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To: damniseedemons who wrote (13907)11/5/1997 8:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Dan, Intel had to give out $50 upgrade coupons (for OverDrive processors) to a bunch of Pentium owners (I'm not sure what the details were).

You better check, because the case I was thinking of didn't involve Pentium or x86 at all. Anytime some benchmark improves by 50x or something alarm bells go off, the usual suspicion is that entire subroutines have been optimized away. Synthetic benchmarks are notoriously unreliable and prone to misuse anyway.

With everybody expecting performance problems with Java, what good is it supposed to do Sun to come up with bogus benchmark results that don't carry through to real applications? They may have done something dumb here, but it's not something that would go unnoticed for long.

Cheers, Dan.
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