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To: kash johal who wrote (70587)	9/2/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574046

<AT idf they were going to announce some benchmarks, that was my understanding. It was also listed as one of the things they would discuss in the digests.> Come on.. don't be surprised or disappointed. If you go back through history they have been promising Merced benchmarks going on 3 years now. They can't talk benchmarks. We have one very good anecdotal point that Merced benchmarks are lukewarm at best from a comment by Dr. Bandwidth in comp.arch: "I cannot go into detail, but [Merced] numbers being thrown around here [IDF] correspond to numbers (that I saw in a previous life) generated using rather primitive compiler technology." -- John D. McCalpin, Ph.D. john@mccalpin.com "Dr. Bandwidth" cs.virginia.edu For the less informed .. Dr. John is the father of STREAM, a very important benchmark for high-performance computer measurement/sizing (measures main memory bandwidth). Also, in a "former life" John worked at SGI... a noted last place finisher on CPU metrics. So it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say Merced performance is currently sucking ... hence no talky-talky about performance. Hushy-hushy instead. Rob