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><<I would rather rely on Drystones and Whetstones, since they >do more of what I'm looking for. The SI benchmark seems akward, and >more of something a WinDO$ fanatic would use. >>> > >Drystone is known to be a completely broken benchmark, and no one should >rely on it for anything (broken means that a compiler can easily subvert >the test, and many compilers do). > >Whetstone is a little more reliable if you are measuring floating-point >performance, but gives a completely inadequate reflection of cacehe >effects. The livermore loops are probably much more reliable, or >the new Spec suite. > But what if you run something like Linux or OS/2? Not everyone uses Micro$ofts' bloatware, so we need different benchmarks. Just my 2 cents. Paul The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 31 Processes with 103 Threads. This machine's uptime is 2d 5h 26m 10s 257ms.