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A comment on ARMv7 vs. x86-64: Pathfinding benchmark of C++, D, Go, Nim, Ocaml, and more. Parent comment

Re:ARMv7 vs. x86-64: Pathfinding benchmark of C++, D, Go, Ni... by alain94040 on Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:12PM (#8777151)
Correct. Not to mention that benchmarking on a mobile phone is tricky. You need to make sure your CPU won't throttle due to heat. Your average mobile CPU can't run at 100% for very long. The more benchmarks you run back to back, the slower you get, so your measurements can easily be completely wrong.
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Re:ARMv7 vs. x86-64: Pathfinding benchmark of C++, D, Go, Ni... by acqq on Saturday December 20, 2014 @01:17PM (#8777347)
Exactly, the speed of mobiles is limited to short bursts to preserve the battery. And sometimes even the worse code gets more CPU if it hits the right patterns.

The timings presented are also confusingly presented for my taste.

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