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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (57209)	10/4/2001 7:23:37 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Mary, re: There are just too many variables. If all you wanted to do on your computer was to play Quake III in some esoteric mode, the program may utilize some performance characteristics of one processor that is different than some program that does video editing and utiliezs the performance characteristics of another processor. Voice to text, database intensive applications, and so on - may require different capabilities of the entire computer or system. It's not perfect, you obviously can't benchmark each application. But there really is NO performance metric right now, nothing that anyone could use to effectively compare one system to another. Too many different components. Benchmarking systems, not components, is the only way to get close to making it make sense. And having a consistent set of benchmarks throughout the industry is the only way to make it meaningful to a consumer. You may not get your exact application, but at least you are somewhere near, if not in, the ballpark. It's just idle speculation anyway, it ain't going to happen. John

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (57209)	10/4/2001 8:52:08 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Mary: I don't think that can happen even if they all agree to try. There are just too many variables. If all you wanted to do on your computer was to play Quake III in some esoteric mode, the program may utilize some performance characteristics of one processor that is different than some program that does video editing and utiliezs the performance characteristics of another processor. Voice to text, database intensive applications, and so on - may require different capabilities of the entire computer or system. Frequency as a basis for characterizing performance is going to break down completely. Not this year, probably not next year or even the year after that. But soon&#133 -fyo