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Re:GCC 5.2 released by anon4 on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:55PM (#9899524)
Historically, it's been a significant win for some of the SPECcpu benchmarks.

But doesn't it mean that you're not really executing the full benchmark then?

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Re:GCC 5.2 released by greglindahl on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:40PM (#9899760)
No, because no one ever reads the dead data. These are not microbenchmarks that get broken by optimizations like this; SPECcpu programs have answers, and the goal is to output the answer. The answer is tested. Anything you can delete from the program is fair game.
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