14 Nov
2002
14 Nov
'02
11:48 p.m.
Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
This is an industry-wide practice. That is why there have to be special industry accepted benchmark companies.
I couldn't agree more. But there are standard benchmarks for certain products. eg Specweb Winstone etc.
This also makes it easy for companies to manipulate and influence test results. They only have to make sure it performs perfectly in a specific parameter which the benchmark company will use. There have been complaints by AMD and *** (fogot the name of the company make the cruzeo chip)
The name of the company is TransMeta and the name of the chip is crusoe. Named after Robinson Crusoe. BTW Linus Torvalds also works there.