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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (51240)	8/15/2001 3:20:12 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: - Retired benchmark... average all the scores equally (except Awadvs-04 .... You keep tossing out the ones you lose, then emphasizing the ones created by Intel/Bapco that were tuned to cover up the failings of P4. Unless the data elements, data boundary sizes, and instruction subset are carefully and artificially tuned to P4, it generally doesn't do well. I am suspicious of any benchmark created by authors with the chip in hand to tune the benchmarek (like Bapco, which is dependent on Intel for it offices and funding) - why don't you just use the suite of tests AMD posted on its web page? You don't think using tests of code and data selected by someone dependent on AMD are unbiased? Then why are tests of code and data selected by someone dependent on not Intel biased? Look at any independent test that does something real - calculating Pi, for example. Or Anand serving up real web database pages from his real web database server. Or almost any other benchmark that was created as a benchmark independent of a P4, and not what was left after thousands of alternatives were evaluated for how good they made P4 look, and you'll see how limited P4 is.