Dual core benchmarks are pointless in an Amiga context though, so why bother? Amiga won't ever be SMP without breaking the "Amiga" in it. I would vote "aye" for doing that in future MorphOS, but my view of the OS4 community is that it's largely built on the "we are based on teh tru sources", "we are teh reel!!1!" and other mumbo jumbo statements, so I don't think it will go down just as easily for them. And of course, if you are going to cut the cord, break from the past, and start with a clean slate, why on earth would anyone be stupid enough to do it on an obscure, backwater PPC platform? Doesn't compute...
If ALL the machines are benchmarked using two cores then that's a valid comparison, but what does anyone expect? ALL the machines will simply be faster, it isn't going to magically make the X1000 change position. But like you, I wonder what is the point of doing so if the X1000 is involved? The OS the X1000 is supposedly designed for doesn't have SMP or any other sort of multi-core support, so all it will do is expose OS4 users to precisely how little of the processing power of the X1000 is utilized.
Hey I know, maybe if the benchmark suites were redesigned to take advantage of the Power of X, the onboard Xena XMOS chip, then the scales will tip! Yeah that's the ticket! :crazy smiley: :crazy smiley:
