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And this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour.

• wolfgke 7y ago
  > And this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour. A benchmark whose speed also depends on a compiler is not a benchmark of the CPU, but of a combination compiler/CPU. If this is not written down (and, of course, also written down which compiler was used), it is a deception of the reader.
  • rbanffy 7y ago
    During the UNIX wars, it was suspected many companies tuned their compilers to generate unrealistically fast code for common benchmarks.
  • ncmncm 7y ago
    All benchmarks depend on both the CPU and the compiler -- except those coded in assembly language. Everybody knows it, so it is not (by itself) a deception.