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Branch predictors made the phones faster and this affects the user experience. But if you want to test the performance of branch predictors you have to compare
by fasouto 10y ago
Branch predictors made the phones faster and this affects the user experience.
But if you want to test the performance of branch predictors you have to compare similar things, you cannot benchmark two different OS and apps because you get and OS and app test not an processor test.
- woliveirajr 10y agoI think the point that previous posters were making is that in controlled environments some features might outperform others. And yes, the scientific way of testing things is isolating variables and changing one thing each time. But, for the final user, it doesn't matter if each technology alone is better than another. If you have a background 64-core processor, driven by another 8-core... What matters is how fast something loads, performs, and how long batteries last. Of course, this might be outplaced in a thread discussing NN branch prediction.