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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (56453)	9/26/2001 8:55:32 AM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

wanna_bmw, It is presumptuous but I make some good assumptions. Our code base is high-level with no assembler language optimizations or special compilers. It accesses the memory in a random way ( depending on the flow of the program, not in a predetermined manner ), does a lot of integer and floating point calculations and it's pretty big in size ( 1.1MB ). I think the majority of commercial code out there fits that profile. I have no way of knowing how other companies' software performs on different systems. To be honest with you most companies don't even bother benching their stuff on different platforms ( neither do we except for this one time ). We just ask Dell for their highest clocked system to improve our execution speed. We've had this discussion many times in the past and as I've always said, I have no faith in the benchmarking that's done out there. I would welcome someone like JC taking a look at the software and commenting on its efficacy as a valid benchmark. Constantine