Reminds me of all those computer architecture papers that optimize for IPC to the detriment of overall performance. Or the CPU frequency wars which led to ever

Reminds me of all those computer architecture papers that optimize for IPC to the detriment of overall performance. Or the CPU frequency wars which led to ever deeper pipelines which were completely obliterated with branch mispredicts. Or the current trend of increasing core count without actually being able to do any useful work on them...