Criticizing Computers

• sbc-bench

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  Simple benchmark for single board computers

Well aside from the usual Wirth's law answer, the key is high abstraction on all levels, which brings bloat with it.

Eventually that bloat will get optimized, as that chart interestingly shows iphone responsiveness climbing with increasing years. Same with Windows, where there was a sizable abstraction jump with Vista, which then got slowly optimized over 7, 8 and 10.

There's even abstraction in memory management now, with 64 bit virtual address mapping. I've recently stumbled upon these ARM benchmarks https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Result... and was surprised that the Pi 4 runs 10-50% slower in 64 bit mode compared to 32 bit. I'd expect there was also a notable speed decrease when going from 8 to 16 and 32 bit systems.

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