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5 months agoThere absolutely was. Intel got smacked on the wrist for doing their benchmarks using ICC… you know, the compiler that builds code that detects that it’s not running on an Intel CPU and disables all optimisations and extended instruction sets (like say MMX/SSE).
Just to be a pedant, you know that deserts don’t have to be hot, right? The definition of a desert comes down to the amount of precipitation that a region gets, not how hot it is - Antarctica is a desert, the largest one on Earth.