From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 1998 - 11:57:06 EST
>
>The Norton SI benchnmark is a notorious piece of junk. It relies heavily
>on the timing for integer multiply and divide, which are not at all
>indicative of general performance. It was written way back when Peter
>really did not know much about architecture. It served to measure
>relative rates for the same chip, but across chips it is seriously
>misleading.
>
>There were also alignment problems in at least one version of SI (Peter
>did not understand that alignment of code is critical in benchnmarks),
>but I think that has been corrected.
>
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.
Just my 2 cents.
Paul
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