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Asri-unix.1238 net.works utzoo!decvax!cca!sri-unix!Hank Fri Apr 16 06:38:54 1982 bogus benchmarks The most flagrant violator of benchmark reasonableness that I've seen lately is Perkin-Elmer. They had an add comparing their machine to a VAX-11/780. The machine supposedly executed one of the benchmarks >1000 times faster than the VAX. How was this possible. Well the benchmark didn't generate any output, so the compiler optimized it to a NOOP, which could be executed 1000 times faster...

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