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Call me when there is something to show besides geekbench synthetic scores (which heavily favor Apple iOS devices, going as far as utilizing asic and specialize
by throwaway2048 8y ago
Call me when there is something to show besides geekbench synthetic scores (which heavily favor Apple iOS devices, going as far as utilizing asic and specialized instructions for stuff like compression and javascript) and javascript benchmarks which run for milliseconds and are super prone to highly specific tuning (See the general uselessness of stuff like sunspider for actually measuring anything a user would consider to be performance)
from the article:
The next issue I want to address are fallacies
I've seen permeate discussions around ARM performance:
that a benchmark is not at all useful because it is
flawed or not objective in some way. I understand the
reaction to a degree (I once wrote an article
criticising camera benchmarks that reduce complex data
into single scalar numbers), but I also believe that
it’s possible to understand the shortcomings of a
benchmark, not to approach it objectively, and to
properly consider what it might indicate, rather than
dismissing it out of hand.
This is some pretty insipid hand waving, they then go on to address exactly nothing about any shortcomings, and keep pretending that these benchmarks generalize meaningfully.
- BeeOnRope 8y agoActual application benchmarks and many Spec2006 sub-tests show up right in the same ballpark. Where Intel still has a big lead is in multi-threaded performance and heavy SIMD use.