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To: gordon who wrote (5407)	11/8/1997 5:00:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Respond to of 64865

Very interesting and controversy article zdnet.com By the heading, it seems SUN is the bad guy who used dirty tricks but Sun's arguement does has its own merit. In fact, a program can trick a poorly designed benchmark program as a benchmark can also carefully designed to advertised a specify hardware/software solution. An examle would be Quantum's QBench, I am not sure whether it is accidental or not but it usually reported higher good # from Quantum HDD than other benchmark program. BTW, Quantum HDD indeed is fast. Sun also has the point that benchmark utility is one tools to help developer to write efficient algorithm. For example, a speedometer is a type of benchmark, engineer must beat the speedometer to design a racing car engine. Same as software, if the benchmark program is carefully designed to mimic real life operation, there is really nothing wrong for developer to play around it. Unless it is speically desgined for specific hardware/software. aC