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Re:Why Intel Added Cache Partitioning by Symmetry on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:53PM (#10335839)
What I've heard is that you should mostly pay attention to the gcc compilation part of SPEC if you want a good indication of real world performance.
Re:Why Intel Added Cache Partitioning by ofrobots on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:10AM (#10336856)
Never use a single workload as a predictor of performance of the universe of all other workloads. The best benchmark is not a benchmark at all – it is your actual workload.