April 1996 / Letters

No Sweat	Thank you for the great article "Integration, Not Perspiration" (State of the Art, January).
Thanks!	Congratulations on one of the best-organized sets of pages on the World Wide Web.
Pass the Results, Please	In "AMD K6 Takes On Intel P6" (January), I came upon the term register-result bypassing in a context unfamiliar to me.
They Don't Always Lie	"Damn Lies" (Network Project, February) was very informative and should be helpful to many Web-site administrators.
More Linux	"Linux Matters" (Unix Special Report, February) presented an excellent introduction and overview of the Linux OS, the rich variety of Unix software that runs on it, and the free-spirited nature of Linux developers and users.
Benchmark Confusion	In "Intel Beats the Clock...Again" (News & Views, January), the SPECint benchmarks reveal that the 150-MHz PowerPC 604 processor is slower than the 167-MHz UltraSparc.
No Security On-Line	I enjoyed the editorial "Not Till It Flies!" (February).
Cleaning Up the Garbage	In "Clean Up: C++ Garbage Collection" (January), you fail to mention that your garbage-collection scheme, RGC, increases the size of each object using it.
DNA by the Numbers...to the Letter	In the sidebar "DNA by the Numbers" (December 1995, page 110) you mention "four common genes (D2SS44, D157, D1580 and D17S79).

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