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To: Petz who wrote (4452)	2/17/1998 2:39:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 6843

Petz, <application set for Winstone '98 is seriously flawed.> It depends, but Z-D claims that their choice is based on market share research. We can also argue about contents of their scripts, and may want to start a new thread, say, "Winstone vs. BAPCO":-) (BAPCO uses the same approach - runs applications under a scripted control). IMHO, all this doesn't matter too much. All these applications are doing approximately the same things and call the same system DLLs. They differ only in data contents and disk file clustering and layout. Even more, I "believe" that the specific application code itself consumes very little relative to the time spent in system calls (I would not call it "overhead" though). That is why even a new (and smartly written) part of OS (NT vs 95) can make a significant impact on application performance. All this amateurish ranting about 16-bit code vs. 32-bit code hold little water (technically speaking). In any way, these benchmarks make much more sense for the general buying public than so-called "synthetic" benchmarks like various flavors of mem/bench/dhry/whet/stones, STREAMs, BYTEmarks, etc. BTW, the Netscape is now a part of Winstone98. Also included (but not a part of the final WS score) are two "task switching" benchmarks: porting data/graphics from Excel into MS Word, and the same for CorelDRAW/WordPerf. Regards, Ali