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I'm not sure if the analogy was intentional but your comment made me immediately think of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
by titanomachy 11y ago
I'm not sure if the analogy was intentional but your comment made me immediately think of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
- ska 11y agoThere is a parallel, but only to the first part. What VW did was cheat on benchmarks, much like certain driver vendors and compilers have been known to do. But what we're talking about here is much, much worse from a design point of view. It specializing your system for the benchmark, in such a way that you are actually making it worse in general.