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To: Dirk Dawson who wrote (9564)	3/17/1998 7:27:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

Dirk. Take a look for bench mark rigging. It is common place and is usually mediated by the marketers who try to use the benchmarks that show them in a better light versus the competitor. Across platforms it is easier to do as you must use different code, and then is it the same programs differenc code that causes the difference, or the machines themselves? You can rig a test to show a G-3 better than a P-II by knowledge of the cache differences. Make the test so the cache always has consecutive hits with the G-3 and the P-II always has to go get from main memory. Since the G-3 has a larger cache it is easy to write a test routine that makes the P-II never get a hit and the G-3 gets cache hits everytime it goes to the cache, thus it will win. So a fair benchmark must take care not to do that. There are other ways as well. Bill