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jmyelast Sunday at 3:34 AM1 replyview on HN

I think that’s totally fair!

I guess I look at this less as an “ah ha! They’re all cheating!” and more of a “were you guys even aware of what the benchmarks represented and how they checked them?”


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mzellinglast Sunday at 8:04 PM

That's a great way to look at it. The paper is a reality check for anyone who thinks of benchmarks as these monolithic, oracular judges of performance. It highlights the soft underbelly of benchmarking.