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Computer Architects Can't Find the Average

Or, Why All Means Are Bad

For years, academic practitioners in this field have been arguing about the appropriate way to summarize the average performance of their designs. When I report a score for SPEC, I don’t really care about how long it takes to run every single workload in that benchmark in a sequential fashion! If the idea presented in the rest of the paper sounds reasonable, maybe he’ll try to apply its innovations to the production design.

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