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Intel: “Was that wrong? Should we not have done that?” #intel #hardware #benchmarks

Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results

SPEC says Intel's Xeon processors were using a compiler that artificially inflated the results of its industrial benchmark by as much as 9%.
Michael Crider (PCWorld)
#Intel #hardware #benchmarks

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Richard
Richard
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So my internal computer hardware enthusiast asks "what are the uses of said optimizations outside of benchmarks?"
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Karl Auerbach
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Years and years ago (around 1980) Oracle came in and asked us to tweek our operating systems so that Oracle would run faster and its competition run slower.
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Richard
Richard
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@Karl Auerbach "Thank you for your feature request. It has been filed for future consideration and as evidence in any possible legal proceedings."
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