I want M$ to repeat their test with four 4-cpu machines running for a fair comparison. Whine, whinge, whimper.
While the benchmarks aren't meant for direct comparison, we all use them that way. If those using them in such comparisons cannot make the needed "fudge factor" adjustments to do so, then they shouldn't be making them in the first place.
The benchmarks are not intended to relieve their users of the need to think... something a lot of
the posters here seem to have missed. To be of any real use, the TPC results have to be grok'd in fullness... not just taken at headline value.
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I want M$ to repeat their test with four 4-cpu machines running for a fair comparison. Whine, whinge, whimper.
... something a lot of
the posters here seem to have missed. To be of any real use, the TPC results have to be grok'd in fullness ... not just taken at headline value.
While the benchmarks aren't meant for direct comparison, we all use them that way. If those using them in such comparisons cannot make the needed "fudge factor" adjustments to do so, then they shouldn't be making them in the first place.
The benchmarks are not intended to relieve their users of the need to think