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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:48:41 GMT, f/f george <george@yourplace.com> wrote:

I think if you run the mp3 palyers WHILE doing the benchmarking you
MAY come out with a closer to accurate time. The benchmark is based on
whatever the computer is doing while benchmarking, if you stop doing
your regular stuff it will say it is faster than it really is. Maybe
the Celerons are fast in the beginning but then slow down because of
the small cache and that is affecting the benchmarks? If so then the
programmers should have caught that!

Actualy, not quite... the benchmarks are based on the CPU time it takes 
to perform some calculations, so using the system ideally shouldn't have 
an effect on this.  In reality, it does have an effect depending on the 
operating system and what, exactly, is being done at the same time as 
the benchmarks.

The workunit estimated times are just estimates.  Each workunit is a 
little bit different, I think they're using just one estimate for all 
workunits at the moment.

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