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Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results (www.pcworld.com)

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Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results::SPEC says Intel's Xeon processors were using a compiler that artificially inflated the results of its industrial benchmark by as much as 9%.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 8 months ago

If a chip has instructions to make certain tasks go faster, I'd say it's fair to recompile the benchmark to use them. We didn't stop adding new things after the 486.

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