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Historically, it's been a significant win for some of the SPECcpu benchmarks. But doesn't it mean that you're not really executing the full benchmark then?
by anon4 11y ago
Historically, it's been a significant win for some of the SPECcpu benchmarks.
But doesn't it mean that you're not really executing the full benchmark then?
- greglindahl 11y agoNo, because no one ever reads the dead data. These are not microbenchmarks that get broken by optimizations like this; SPECcpu programs have answers, and the goal is to output the answer. The answer is tested. Anything you can delete from the program is fair game.