2024-02-19
The compiler? Cheated? By nearly 10%? What next? Gaphorism 1.21: All competitive benchmarking is institutionalized cheating https://www.perfdynamics.com/ ... Not quite as impressive as HP blowing away the SPECfp code by 600% with a legal 3rd party supercomputer compiler c.1993.
PCWorld
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9%
Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation.
2022-03-01
The implementor half of the Metcalfe-Boggs ethernet at Xerox PARC circa 1975. RIP https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
David Boggs, who co-invented Ethernet along with Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC, died on February 19 at 71
Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot.