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Subject: Questionable benchmark

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 02:03:45 11/04/01

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One important thing about benchmarking is to say exactly what the benchmark
does, and such an explanation is curiously absent from the article that you
reference.

If Win2k can display a window in 1 ms and WinXP can display it in 2 ms, then
WinXP is arguably 100% slower than Win2k. Does that make any different
whatsoever to anybody? No, because nobody spends 100% of their time bringing up
windows.

My guess is that if you run a chess program on WinXP, it will be exactly as fast
as it is on Win2k...

-Tom



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