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Warp Engine

    31-May-94 22:40:03
Sb: #149843-Warp Engine
Fm: Wayne Cole 76370,621
To: John Chang 73023,2000
Boo Hoo, (sniff sniff)… I'm part of the "benchmarks are meaningless" club. I mean, they are good to measure raw CPU power and can be tuned to prove what you want. (Like the Mac User PPC benchmark tests show the PPC blowing the Pentium away, and PC mag shows benchmarks where the Pentium blows the PPC away.) So I always look for "real world test" that relate to what I do with a processor. The fastest FPU in the world does little if you run heavily disk bound tasks. And the reverse goes for "high speed DMA channels". I know I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Its just that all the Specmark BS means nothing to me I've done so well at ignoring it. What does mean something to me is "how fast can it render scene x" Scenee x, of course, being one that resides on my HD :^} wmc – via Autopilot!