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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (147466)	11/12/2001 12:07:29 AM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re:"no frequency is given more than M2600." Don't fall into the quanti-speed trap. M2600 is only a grossly uncertain estimate for how fast Barton will run a benchmark -- it is not a frequency. And a quanti-speed estimate out in the future is a total joke. First you have to estimate the frequency of Barton made on a performance estimate of a nonexistent process. But we are just getting started. You have to estimate how the processor architecture will perform. So already you have an estimate based on an estimate followed by another estimate. Now comes the really hilarious part. The software benchmark of today will not be the benchmark of tomorrow that runs the quanti-speed tests !! No one has even a WAG on what that benchmark will be a couple years away. Who knows what the "typical application" software from a half dozen different sources will look like at that time. It would be a lot easier to guess who is going to win the World Series 2 years from now.