Paul D. Buck wrote:
> The best benchmark for a system is the actual running application.  This 
> truism has been long known as established fact.  The only reason 
> synthetic benchmarks are used is that they are a lot easier to port to 
> other systems.

The moment you pick one work unit as your "reference" work unit, you 
have a synthetic benchmark -- and a circular argument.
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