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[misen]

It's somehow benchmark shenanigans now to win with better compilers?

It's not better compilers

"Technical consulting firm BDTI pointed out that the compiled code for the Intel processor was not executing all instructions that were intended for the RAM test. This artificially improved the results for the Lenovo K900 smartphone and the Intel Atom processors. The problem appears to arise from the ICC compiler introduced around version 2.9.4 of the AnTuTu benchmark and used just for the Intel processors. Code for all other processors uses a different compiler, called the GCC." from this EETimes article:

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1318894

Misen