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They better be wary of the Streisand Effect here. Banning benchmarking just makes it seem like the performance hit is going to be serious, which makes everyone
by Nition 8y ago
They better be wary of the Streisand Effect here. Banning benchmarking just makes it seem like the performance hit is going to be serious, which makes everyone even more curious.
- duxup 8y agoI didn't know anything about this... now I'm really curious what the benchmarks are. Now that it is news they're pretty much begging for someone to do the benchmarks. This reminds me of the oracle license that was so broad it prevented users from talking to other users about their experience with the product... any experience.
- cm2187 8y agoAnd I don't think Intel has any way to prevent some blog in China or Russia to run some standardised benchmark tools on their box. Intel will not even achieve preventing these benchmarks popping up, it will just draw attention to them.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoPerhaps they're not complete imbeciles and this is a marketing stunt, turns out the benchmarks are fantastic??
- duxup 8y agoI would very much enjoy that.
- dwild 8y agoCould be a "reverse" Streisand Effect. Any slowdown would have been pretty public, the microcode update is still a big deal and the expectation weren't clear, I'm pretty sure the results were worst than the average expectation. Now though, the expectation are much higher, people expect it to be pretty high and maybe the results are now actually lower than theses expectations. So yeah maybe more publicity but maybe now people will say "not as bad as I thought", instead of saying "much worse than I thought".
- Nition 8y agoThat's brilliant, but probably a little too clever to be the reality.