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by AlEinstein 2204 days ago
The floating point results are suspiciously good compared to the rest of the results. I wonder if they have some good VLIW instructions for floating point or it’s just an error in the spreadsheet.
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VLIWs tend to do well for programs with predictable-at-compile-time memory access patterns which tends to correlate with floating point heavy code.
Linpack is a floating-point benchmark focused on linear algebra operations. Coremark has some floating-point-heavy benchmarks in its suite, although a common criticism is that the footprint is too small to exercise the memory system.

So yeah, the "Maximum MFLOPS" row looks suspicious.