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Thank you for calling this out. It was the spirit of what I was trying to go for, because the website use "60GB of RAM (EC2 c3.8xlarge)" which I wouldn't even p

• pritambaral 7y ago
  > 60GB of RAM (EC2 c3.8xlarge)" which I wouldn't even pay for. The point isn't to restrict benchmarks to only high-end machines. The point is to use a stable standard that people wouldn't have trouble running for a few hours. I can rent a machine of that identical type for 20 hours, or buy an RPi, for the low price of $35. > about as powerful as my 5 year old air, 1.4GHz quadcore vs 1.6GHz quadcore Core counts and clock speeds do not translate to comparable computing power across processor families and instruction sets. E.g., the RPi 4 (1.5GHz, quadcore) is announced to deliver 3x the performance of an RPi 3B+ (1.4GHz, quadcore), and that's on the same instruction set.
• philjohn 7y ago
  > Though note, the RasPi 3 B+ is actually about as powerful as my 5 year old air, 1.4GHz quadcore vs 1.6GHz quadcore. I don't think that's an apples to apples comparison. The Pi 3 doesn't have an out-of-order CPU so can't do instruction level parallelism. The new Pi 4 is better in this regard, but both are handily beaten by Intel CPU's from the last 10 years.