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How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?
Any time you have a benchmark that gets taken seriously, some people will start gaming the benchmark. Some famous examples in computing are the CPU benchmark specfp and video game benchmarks. With specfp, Sun managed to increase its score on 179.art (a sub-benchmark of specfp) by 12x with a compiler tweak that…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2020 | How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for? by weinzierl | 295 | 343 |
| Nov 11, 2021 | How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for? (2020) by ndr | 111 | 101 |
| Nov 17, 2024 | How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing? (2020) by surprisetalk | 86 | 172 |
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