Such benchmarks were known for years! [LWN.net]

Such benchmarks were known for years!

Posted Oct 1, 2007 21:02 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Thanks Ulrich and Jon by nix
Parent article: Memory part 2: CPU caches

For example on Digit-Life:

AMD K7/K8 Platforms
Intel Pentium 4 Platforms
Intel Pentium III & Pentium M (Banias) Platforms
VIA C3 Platforms
Intel Pentium M Platform (Dothan)
Intel Xeon (Nocona)
Intel Sonoma, New Revision of Dothan Core, Pentium M Processor
Intel Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with a new revision of Prescott core
Dual Core Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (Smithfield)
Intel Core Duo (Yonah)
Dual Core Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 (Presler)
VIA C7/C7-M Processors
Intel Core 2 (Conroe)

So detailed investigations of CPU internals with simple benchmarks are not so interesting - the detailed explanations related to programming should be...

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Such benchmarks were known for years!

Posted Oct 2, 2007 20:48 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, they were known for years (everything Ulrich talks about here was
known for years; it's a human creation, after all, not a discovery.)

But *I* didn't know it. Thanks to this article, now I do. (The later
chapters promise to get even more interesting, as you said.)

(And those links look really cool. Thanks.)