It is still needed on startup and whenever the hardware or OS changes in a
way that might impact run times.  This is to give a quick read for the CPU
scheduler and work fetch to cope.

jm7


                                                                           
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[email protected] wrote:
> The point was that a few seconds or a few minutes every week is much more
> palatable than running a benchmark that takes a few hours every week.

And real work that is calibrated against a reference that then is used
to calibrate that particular host is better still.

No wasteful benchmarking on the clients needed!

Regards,
Martin

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