Re: Where are the SPEC numbers?
It's a while since I looked in detail at this stuff, but back in the late 20th century, SPECint and SPECfp weren't really most sensible people's benchmark of choice any more, surely, given that workloads had changed since SPEC came in, and address spaces had grown, and other similar technotrivia changes.
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[Alternatively maybe it's too early in the morning for me to be posting]
It is.
SPEC CPU is very much relevant for some application domains - including those I am interested in. I find the 2006 version of SPECfp to correlate very well with our typical workloads [there are too few submissions for the 2017 version of the benchmark to say anything yet - but I looking forward to seeing more, not in the least because it has an OpenMP component].
If a vendor does not submit a SPEC CPU score, this tells me that either:
a. Their hardware is really not particularly suited for my workloads
-or-
b. They do not care about my workloads and about having me as a customer.
Either way, I will most likely look elsewhere.
Naturally, your workloads may be different, and SPEC CPU may not be relevant for you. YMMV, you know?
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