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For this sort of benchmarking you don’t want to know what it should find, that would be a functional test and not a benchmark.

Compiling and profiling reasonably complex apps against baseline would be enough.

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I'd also like to see motivating examples of specific things it does find (that LLVM doesn't), even if that's not a representative benchmark

I think I get what you're saying, I think people would read too much into them though. The results are very dependent on the type of program you have. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10s of percentage point differences in benchmarks between various examples.

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