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[The_Trooper]

SpecInt is a different animal, testing huge tasks with typical workloads.

Contrary to what many people think SPEC CPU does not put such a high pressure on caches. CPU2000 data miss rate is 5.25% and CPU2006 is even lower at 2.95%. This is lower than the 11.6% alexander-dumbass measured for Geekbench (I computed load+store miss rate).

Ref: page 10 of http://www.jaleels.org/ajaleel/workload/SPECanalysis.pdf

Silvermont does much better than the ARM competition in that (according to Intel, no other sources available).

If Intel used their own compiler, there's a bias as it's known to be heavily tuned for SPEC.