On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:40:04PM +0000, Tom Brown wrote: >> >> measure your application performance. anything else is BS. >h > well not really as we have different CPU's from Intel and AMD and we > want to see how these benchmark without benchmarking the apps(s) as apps > are many and benchmarking them all against all the apps is not possible. Published Spec benchmarks are valuable in this fuzzy context. Once you have your application benchmarked, tools like "lmbench" may help you understand what the win/loss keys are. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmbench More important than hardware can be your choice of compiler and IO (disk)... When looking at 'spec' benchmark results pay attention to the choice of compiler AND the hardware bits surrounding the CPU. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what?