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fluidcruft • yesterday at 9:04 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

(what are blueberry, ripley, jones and prometheus?)

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mkl • yesterday at 9:09 PM

Yes, the graphs are incomprehensible because those are not defined in the article. They turn out to be different physical machines with different architectures: https://doesjitgobrrr.com/about

  blueberry (aarch64)
  Description: Raspberry Pi 5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
  OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
  Owner: Savannah Ostrowski

  ripley (x86_64)
  Description: Intel i5-8400 @ 2.80GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD
  OS: Ubuntu 24.04
  Owner: Savannah Ostrowski

  jones (aarch64)
  Description: Apple M3 Pro, 18GB RAM, 512GB SSD
  OS: macOS
  Owner: Savannah Ostrowski

  prometheus (x86_64)
  Description: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X @ 3.80GHz, 16GB RAM
  OS: Windows 11 Pro
  Owner: Savannah Ostrowski
max-m • yesterday at 9:06 PM

The names of the benchmark runners. https://doesjitgobrrr.com/about

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nonameiguess • yesterday at 10:06 PM

The immediate question has been answered, but what about the names? The latter three are obvious references to the Alien universe, but what relationship does blueberry have to them?

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