SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloads

By: Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us), November 18, 2020 12:17 pm
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none (none.delete@this.none.com) on November 18, 2020 10:14 am wrote:
> Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on November 18, 2020 9:21 am wrote:
> > Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on November 18, 2020 9:13 am wrote:
> > >
> > > x264 in SPEC is not there to help you decide which PC to buy for ripping DVD content!
> > > It is there as an exemplar of certain styles of code: various generic compression techniques
> > > (so lots of bit by bit manipulation) and various image analysis techniques (so searches
> > > over images and image comparisons at various frequency granularities).
> > >
> >
> > You didn't read it? If x264 is example of a kind of code, it is an example of code
> > heavily optimised with multimedia (integer) SIMD. It's a greeat example or maybe
> > too great, other codebases like ffmpeg or x265 will be a bit less optimized.
> >
> > If you want to explore such code, run it with assembly. It has assembly for ARM too, and not that
> > little of it. Without SIMD, it is the opposite of example of multimedia compression code.
>
> The main interest of that code is its high IPC and potential automatic vectorization, not
> that it exhibits absolute fastest code for h264 compression.
>
> The mistake is to think that since it's named x264 it should behave as the x264 you know. An
> understandable mistake, I agree.
>

I don't think this is reasonable at all. We don't want to test how clever compilers are at autovectorization. We want to know how fast CPUs are running actual code.

And if the starting argument was about whether SPEC represents real usage then no, this is doubly irrelevant. Real usage is with SIMD and I see no reasonable way around that fact.

We should refrain from introducing completely theoretical and arbitrary extra constrains into the matter if those are merely for the goal of changing the result to something we prefer to the actual result we get when we just do it the correct straightforward way.

>
> > "Various generic compression techniques", my butt. This is an area I
> > know, so please don't talk armchair nonsense like you did just now.
>
> Keeping it civil is an option, you know?

Maynard clearly ignored my message and went on to claima complete opposite of what the same premises imply.
And note it was a reply to somebody who is keeping it civil like this. I still only used words like butt or nonsense in reference to stuff that was said and not people who said it.
At one point or the other, if it is nonsense you have to call it such.

> > > x264 in SPEC is not there to help you decide which PC to buy for ripping DVD content!

I ignored his patronizing, strawman ad hominem (or what was exactly the intention here) too :)
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                      Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDummond D. Slow2020/11/17 12:18 PM
                        Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDoug S2020/11/17 01:21 PM
                          Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTblaine2020/11/19 06:18 PM
                            Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDummond D. Slow2020/11/19 06:31 PM
                        Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTTJ2020/11/18 02:10 AM
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                            SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsChester2020/11/18 08:02 AM
                              SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 08:17 AM
                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsnone2020/11/18 09:18 AM
                                  x264 without SIMD is nonsenseDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 09:31 AM
                                  SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsMaynard Handley2020/11/18 10:13 AM
                                    SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 10:21 AM
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                                          role of hand-optimized assembly in multimedia encodersRichardC2020/11/18 04:42 PM
                                          role of hand-optimized assembly in multimedia encodersnone2020/11/19 08:17 AM
                                      SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsnone2020/11/18 11:14 AM
                                        SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 12:17 PM
                                      SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsMaynard Handley2020/11/18 12:03 PM
                                        SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 12:25 PM
                                          SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsMaynard Handley2020/11/18 01:03 PM
                                            SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 03:57 PM
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                                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 05:50 PM
                                                  SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDoug S2020/11/19 10:13 AM
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                                                    SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/19 03:35 PM
                                              SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsEtienne Lorrain2020/11/19 05:04 AM
                                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/19 06:58 AM
                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsChester2020/11/18 03:06 PM
                                  about bitratesDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 04:04 PM
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                                    SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 04:21 PM
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                              SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsAndrei F2020/11/18 08:44 AM
                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 08:48 AM
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                                    SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 09:41 AM
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                                        SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 10:32 AM
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                                    SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 10:00 AM
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                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsChester2020/11/18 03:13 PM
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                                SPEC is NOT a representation of average workloadsMichael S2020/11/18 02:33 PM
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                            Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsrwessel2020/11/18 08:03 AM
                              Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDoug S2020/11/18 08:44 AM
                                Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 08:52 AM
                                  Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDoug S2020/11/18 03:59 PM
                                    Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 04:12 PM
                                      Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDoug S2020/11/19 10:19 AM
                                        Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/19 04:03 PM
                                          Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsUngo2020/11/19 09:12 PM
                                            Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsDummond D. Slow2020/11/20 09:45 AM
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                                  It's not really SMT or adding small coresDoug S2020/11/18 04:02 PM
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                                Cinebench is NOT a representation of average workloadsxyz2020/11/18 01:14 PM
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                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 09:55 AM
                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDavid Hess2020/11/18 01:12 PM
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                            Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTgallier22020/11/19 12:21 AM
                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTJames2020/11/19 02:22 AM
                                Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTWilco2020/11/19 05:06 AM
                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTanonymou52020/11/19 02:34 AM
                                Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTgallier22020/11/19 09:04 AM
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                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTAdrian2020/11/19 02:56 AM
                        Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTJon Masters2020/11/18 12:46 PM
                          Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTanonymou52020/11/18 03:41 PM
                          Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDummond D. Slow2020/11/18 04:17 PM
                            Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTMaynard Handley2020/11/18 05:46 PM
                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTJon Masters2020/11/19 12:31 AM
                                Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDummond D. Slow2020/11/19 07:01 AM
                              Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTAdrian2020/11/19 02:50 AM
                                Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTAdrian2020/11/19 03:10 AM
                                Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTMaynard Handley2020/11/19 10:13 AM
                                  Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTDummond D. Slow2020/11/19 04:10 PM
                        Apple loses a lot by not having turbo and SMTjuanrga2020/11/19 02:49 AM
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                      re: "scaling"Adrian2020/11/17 01:41 PM
                        re: "scaling"Adrian2020/11/17 01:52 PM
                          re: "scaling"Chester2020/11/17 06:29 PM
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            And the NZ'ers are first to deliver cinebench scoresDummond D. Slow2020/11/16 05:46 PM
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