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To: Scumbria who wrote (127187)	2/12/2001 12:51:38 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Re: SPEC was altered to favor memory bandwidth, purely coincidentally with the release of P4 Are you implying that SPEC is controlled by Intel ? gary

To: Scumbria who wrote (127187)	2/12/2001 12:52:37 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Oh let's not get into a p*ssing contest about who cooked what benchmark to make what processor look better. It seems like most benchmarks these days are cooked up by gormet chefs with an axe to grind... I still contend that the SPEC benchmarks are probably one of the better ones out there in measuring raw performance potential which can be tapped (or not tapped) by software developers. It says that the P4 has a lot of untapped potential... which some other benchmarks (Quake for example among others) offer tantalizing glimpses at...