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To: Petz who wrote (109329)	5/4/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1578499

Re: Sysmark 2000 may backfire on Intel badly... Hi John, Thanks for the happy thought :-) By the way, it looks like JC also has some concerns about that editorial: Regards, Dan jc-news.com And on the side, I'm massively pissed that some very popular people (eg, at least one admittedly very nice webmaster) are using SSE-based benchmarks to rate overall performance of PC processors. This sort of thing has got to stop. I mean, I could code a quickie benchmark that would count how fast a processor could perform multiply-add pairs, and implement it in 3DNow!, x87 and AltiVec, but not SSE. Would that be fair to Intel? No (incidentally, Apple would be thrilled; AltiVec's MAC instruction -- what a bit of irony! -- is very fast). And using SysMark2000 -- a known SSE-enhanced but not 3DNow!-enhanced package, whose creators happen to be partially owned by Intel -- as a sole indicator of x86 performance is absolutely reckless, and it frankly insults me.