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	I would like to start a discussion on the topic of "Benchmarking  RISC/CISC machines for
 embedded control". Those of you who attended 1989 Microprocessor forum would agree that
 currently available benchmarks provided by most chip vendors are very ambiguous at the least
 and are of little practical use to the customers per se. As things stand, it is hard to 
 distinguish the truth from marketing hype.
	
	I would suggest creation of application specific benchmarks e.g.,benchmarking programs for
 embedded control. Currently, all chip makers can pick and choose only the programs that run
 well on their machines. This makes every chip look equally good, but with different set of
 benchmarking programs, and thus confuses the customer. It would be nice to see standard
 benchmarking programs for embedded controllers. We may have to create 2 or 3 sets of benchmarking
 programs to cover the entire embedded control spectrum adequately.


							......Ravi 

 P.S. Disclaimer : Above mentioned comments and opinions are solely mine and not AMD's.