chipguy

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   by chipguy 7y ago

   That's interesting because that's how humans actually do algebra. Who cares about the decimal expansion of some irrational if in the end we divide it by itself for example.
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   by chipguy 7y ago

   The link I posted in a sibling comment is a more direct way to get to the results of that suite.
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   by chipguy 7y ago

   Pardon. I didn't mean to imply you were intentionally doing that. Just trying to make sure there's skepticism of benchmarks as well as skepticism that the boost from branch prediction is dishonest.
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   by chipguy 7y ago

   there are many different types of benchmarks with many different CPUs/GPUs compared here: https://openbenchmarking.org/tests/pts for a more specific example, linux kernel compilation benchmarks: https:/&#x2F
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   by chipguy 7y ago

   That's not the impression I got from that thread. They seem to agree that this is bad for benchmarking, but remain undecided on whether that's good or bad for real-world processing. It depends on the work. So as always benchmark