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Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.51 with contest
From: Robert Love <rml@ufl.edu>
To: Stan Bubrouski <stan@ccs.neu.edu>
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On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 12:18, Stan Bubrouski wrote:

> I know this has been brought up before, but
> these don't seem to mean much unless you
> include 2.4.20 in the comaprison.

Comparing this to 2.4 achieves nothing because so much changed.

The point of these benchmarks are not marketing, but to find
improvements or regressions from one version to the next and find out
what caused them.

Comparing the kernel to 2.4 has some uses (i.e. finding micro-ops) but
Con's mission is much different (and imo more useful).

	Robert Love

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