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On Mon, 20 Oct 97 9:49:38 HST, David Ross wrote: >> >> But what ever happened to Dhrystones and Whetstones? That's what I typically >> >> used. >> > >> >These are very CPU/FPU intensive, and *not* systemic. Exactly the kind >> >of benchmark upgraders use to justify the $400 upgrade cost. >> > >> So do you mean they are good or bad? I am a little confused. >> >Neither good nor bad, just inappropriate for evaluating whole system >speed. If your desire for speed is largely to speed up number-crunching >apps, then these are what you want. If you're evaluating suitability of >a system to run Windows 95, then they are very misleading. The point is >that whet- and dhrystones mainly measure the speed of the CPU/FPU/cache >part of the machine, and largely ignore bus, video, and disk speed. >Thus, they make something like the AMD586 chip - which is fast >internally, but slow in talking to the rest of the world - look >artificially good. > >- David > > Sounds like the PEP system. I wish that there was a project for a suite of free benchmarks for all OSes which could be standard, though. Just my 2 cents. Paul