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And the GP argument is getting very _very_ tired, the metric is becoming as relevant as dhrystone - it represents an increasingly uncommon workload. Especially in a community such as this, where people might care about things such as compilation performance.

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GP? Do you mean Geekbench? If so it literally includes clang performance as one of its benchmarks that it runs. And it scales pretty consistently with the overall score.

Geekbench would be OP (the Original Post). GP stands for… Grandparent Post? (No one actually knows)

Anyway they’re referring to the top comment that acted like a high multithreaded score doesn’t matter.

GP refers to "grand parent", in the sense of the grand parent comment. Basically 2 comments up the chain.

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