Sailesh Krishnamurthy <seesignature_at_cs.berkeley.edu> wrote in message news:<mjqsn52mypb.fsf_at_localhost.localdomain>...
> However, I don't think you quite understand the sheer effort that goes
> into publishing an audited benchmark. If you really believe that
> vendors just "special case" their benchmarks with an "if" statement to
> say "ha .. this is TPC-C .. do this", then there is no point
> continuing the discussion. I think that kind of behaviour is ethically
> wrong, and I would doubt if any vendor will engage in quite that kind
> of chicanery.
Maybe that kind of behaviour is ethically wrong, but oftenly used. I
do not think that is even possible to cheat in TPC benchmark, but in
non-database area we've seen a lot of cheating in benchmarking
recently.
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Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 02:31:43 CDT
