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To: Petz who wrote (19154)	11/15/2000 9:27:32 AM
From: rsi_boy	Respond to of 275872

I'm still not entirely sure the value of scaling comparisons. Seems to me hard to infer much from the slope of scaling numbers. Firstly the numbers vary enormously with application depending on the size of the working set and dependence on other components (i.e. hard disk or video card) Secondly, it's even hard to state whether a steep curve is good or bad. The K6 2 shows a flat scaling curve past 400 in quake 3 due to its caching/architecture limitations. The top Athlon also shows a flattening curve in this case because the CPU is so fast that platform and video card bottlenecks become the primary limitation. So if the P4 shows a steep curve in benchmark x does this mean the P4is a fantastic scalable and balanced architecture or does it mean the P4 is so slow as to cause cpu lag to dwarf all other bottlenecks? t.