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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (60479)10/26/2001 1:59:55 PM
From: wanna_bmwRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Jim, let's just say that I have no intention of supporting the McMannis Benchmark Seal of Approval Rating. Your idea of a good and fair benchmark represents anything that the Pentium 4 does not score well in.

wanna_bmw



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (60479)10/26/2001 2:49:23 PM
From: jcholewaRespond to of 275872
 
> As far as Winzip...OK...might as well use Fuchis load
> Word time benchmark too...

Decompressing a file is a rather intensive operation and doesn't really parallel at all with timing word processor loads. A more applicable parallel would perhaps be compiling code.