From: richard.nospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 16/09/2020 06:25, JL wrote   
      
   > [Back when people cared about Whetstone and Dyrystone benchmarks,   
   > compilers recognized code sequences from those benchmarks for, uh,   
   > special processing.  But it doesn't generalize very well. -John]   
      
   And can backfire badly for the company involved ...   
      
   many VW cars being sold in America had a "defeat device" - or software -   
   in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested,   
   changing the performance accordingly to improve results.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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