Re: Oracle Benchmark Results for Different Hardware Configurations?

From: HansF <Fuzzy.Greybeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:45:05 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2006.09.15.21.36.43.532296@gmail.com>

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:19:41 -0700, joel garry wrote:

> So, what did you get? (I seem to recall a flap among some hybrid

Honda Fit, aka Honda Jazz in Europe. (Another criteria was that I could sit in both front and back seats without hitting my head on the roof. I'm 6'5" and I did an application benchmark on that one in every case!)

The car suits the required application just nicely, but it needed to pass the first gate - fuel economy - to be considered in the first place.

>>
>> But I would be just as big a fool to expect the manufacturer or sales
>> house to give me 10 cars, for one week each, so I could make my own
>> comparison under my normal driving conditions.

>
> Well, they _do_ give car writers cars, some of whom are leadfoots.
>

But, that's just a commercial benchmark. Who knows if the writers are unbiased? Besides, they are not necessarily reflective of my workload and driving habits, and that could be misleading, you know <g>

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