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		joshspankit on July 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FastECC – Reed-Solomon coder computing one million... Kind of surprised that GB/s was even a metric that was used considering how variable CPUs are, even ones manufactured in the same year.

Bulat_Ziganshin on July 11, 2022 [–]

1. As of 2017, we had quadcores as top desktop CPUs for years, and very little IPC and frequency improvements since 2011 2. But the main reason is that I can say "70 MB/s per Haswell core*GHz" and noone will feel whether it's good or not. Performance stated for top modern CPU is much easier to grok

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