Re: CPU specific/optimized Debian builds ?
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:15, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:24:29PM +1200, James Kahn wrote:
> > It is CPU bound, but when it does rest and wait for data from the hard
> > disk, it is not the CPU that is being stressed. If it does this at all
> > it is not a good test of CPU optimisation.
>
> But we're not really interested in testing cpu optimization. For our
> purposes, what's important is whether optimizations make a difference
> for our applications, not whether the optimizations improve some
> abstract test cases. Yes, it makes testing harder, but that's life.
Harder, if not impossible to get real results. Tests would either be
subjective - "It just *feels* faster" - or have a high signal to noise
ratio.
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