On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:40:14 -0600 Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

>On the other hand, too many people submit junk and apparently nobody
>filters it out.  Just look at the numerous different results for PCs -
>twenty tests of the same processor cannot give you results that differ
>in a range of about five times between the fastest and the slowest!

  I mean no disrespect to Mr. Haveland and his work on the PovBench site but
I look at the posted results with a grain of salt. I consider the benchmark
invalid if something other than an official binary was used. I see so many
listings for custom compiles and there is no way to tell how the source
might have been modified.

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