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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (118284)	11/17/2000 8:44:44 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "That's interesting, you seem so confident about SPEC scores but you aren't willing to guess how the P4 will do on other applications" I haven't predicted anything for SPEC scores. I merely pointed out that as of today, the highest scores ever posted were by Alphas(both INT and FP). I was very clear in making no prediction. Scumbria on the other hand, correct me if I'm wrong Scumbria, expects FP scores to do well and INT scores to be disappointing. He declined to quantify either one. I will say the P4 scores will be better than the P3 scores. Both FP and INT. When you ask to compare P4 with other processors it becomes a problem of which apps do you compare? What apps do P4 and SPARC have in common? P4 and RS6000? Would it upset anyone if P4 runs a word processor at only 98% the speed of a Athlon? Do any benchmarks out there measure performance of a wordprocessor while you are also decrypting a 1024 bit DES encoded file while downloading and playing your favorite music video at the same time? The benchmarks you will see P4 suffer at are the ones that measure yesterday's computing experience. If you expect to stay locked into that, do what Scumbria recommends, buy an Athlon. EP