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- From: Philip Machanick <philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za>
- Subject: Re: Speedometer ratings for the current Macs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.092344.12516@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:23:44 GMT
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- In article <freek.725035556@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> Freek Wiedijk,
- freek@phil.ruu.nl writes:
- > LC LC II
- >-----------------------------
- >CPU 3.58 4.01
- >Graf 4.17 4.31
- >Disk 1.60 1.93
- >Math 4.12 5.61
- >
- >P.R. Rating 3.41 3.85
- >-----------------------------
- >
- >After this I rounded the rating to an integer: 3.4 rounds to 3 and
- >3.8 rounds to 4.
-
- This is OK if you think the results are only accurate to about 30% -
- otherwise you are throwing away information.
-
- On the figures to 2 decimals, the difference is about 13% which is
- probably about right, based on previous 020 vs 030 benchmarks.
- --
- Philip Machanick
- Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
- philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za phone: 27 (11) 716-3759 fax: 339-7965
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