I should have made explicit that "when we examined
the processor usage of the mainstream business
applications in the Winstone test, we found that
they do not use any floating point or MMX
instructions. Consequently, CPUmark99 doesn't
include those types of instructions either. "
per http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/bench/cpumark99.html
so this is an elimination benchmark. But Louis Towles' response
seems definitive. Leo
Leo Feret wrote:
> Aaron Blosser wrote:
>
> > > Could someone explain this "noisy" cache/RAM? That sounds like it may be
> > > the problem.
> >
> > Since the cache on the PII's is built in, saying it's a cache problem might
> > as well be the same as calling it a CPU problem.
> >
> >
> > The cache and integer bits of a PII are used with some regularity even if
> > the machine is just sitting there.
> >
> > One good test would be to use any other program that uses the FPU alot and
> > see if the flicker shows up. Can anyone think of another program that
> > would? I suppose any benchmark that tests FLOPS should do the trick.
>
> It might be interesting to run CPUmark 99 from
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/projects/story/0,3656,2175057,00.html
>
> Leo
