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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (50770)2/23/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (2) of 1572032
 
Winstone 99 IS the most important benchmark, even for "high end" users. For example, searching a 300 page HTML document, recalculating a 32K row by 80 column spreadsheet, searching a 100 Meg INBOX file are the kinds of things we actually have to wait for our computer to complete. All of these things are typically done using one of the three office suites used in the Winstone 99 benchmark. So to say that Winstone '99 is "one benchmark" is really inaccurate, its an amalgam of about 16 programs. Doing artistic work with Adobe Photoshop (included in "high end" benchmarks) would be fun, but not many people do this in an office setting.

If the high-end benchmarks were broken down by application the results would be more useful. (In my case, I'd look at compile times and ignore the rest.) I also do a lot of simulations using my own code. 75% of these are integer and 25% floating point, so a word processor/spreadsheet based simulation is a good proxy for my 20K lines of C code.

Petz
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