[wplug] Need suggestions
Brian Medley
bpmedley at 4321.tv
Sun Oct 21 14:38:47 EDT 2001
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:50:12PM -0400, Edward Walter wrote:
> Personally, I take most of the benchmarks I encounter with a grain of
> salt... there are just to many variables which can cause benchmark
> performance to diverge from what you encounter in the real world. That
> said, benchmarks do have value in that they can help to establish a
yes. I agree with you.
> One other thing to note is that the results on both of these benches are
> normalized against CPU speed... just to even the playing field.
However, does it really even the playing field? It appears that their
normalization process is: (HITS/S) / MHZ. Doesn't this assume a linear
relationship between processors? Wouldn't this imply that the way
instructions are handled on the particular processor didn't change *at
all*?
It's been some time since I read about it, but I thought that intel
"tweaked the core" and added instructions imbetween the PII and PIII lines.
So, assuming this, it is conceivable that one instruction will take a
different amount of time on the PIII. I would think that this would skew
the linear relationship.
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