No. The post provides an artifact so that you can test it yourself on your configuration. Knowing how it performed on this particular stepping of that particula

No. The post provides an artifact so that you can test it yourself on your configuration. Knowing how it performed on this particular stepping of that particular microarchitecture won't help you on yours. Yes, your mileage may vary because your mileage always varies, even when you drive from point A to point B twice. Rant continued. I would prefer if the performance sections of papers were restricted to single paragraphs and that artifacts were required. When I'm reading papers I'm more interested in their ideas than in the third decimal place of the result on that given day on some machine I don't have. The Unix Timesharing System has no performance results. The Case For A Reduced Instruction Set Computer has no performance results. The notion that not only having results is somehow important but that providing the testing methodology and hardware configuration is also necessary is nonsense. It just lards up papers and a couple of years later the cited configuration is irrelevant. The CRAY-1 Computer System has no performance results but its section on vector processing still rings true today. It's what the RISC-V vector extension uses.