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I agree that refusing to compile is stubborn on their part. But tailoring the build to your system is very valuable, at least as an option. And a big part of th

I agree that refusing to compile is stubborn on their part. But tailoring the build to your system is very valuable, at least as an option. And a big part of the blame lies with the CPU and OS manufacturers that fail to provide good consistent performance measurement options that traverse all the endless layers of abstraction that extend from the transistors to a user space program nowadays

genewitch 5y ago
On the face it seems like CPU manufacturers should be able to put actual performance numbers out; until we realize that the temperature characteristics - and therefore performance - are non-deterministic. This fact allows hardware RNG from thermal emissions on consumer grade CPUs to output at least 3 megabits of 'entropy' per second. The same as 3,000,000 coin flips. I may be misunderstanding what is going on, though.