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db48xtoday at 6:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Because everyone reported performance metrics using it as a benchmark. Higher number = more sales.


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murderfstoday at 6:36 AM

If you go back 5 years, everyone was using Quake 3 Arena as the benchmark. ATI got in some hot water because if you renamed quake3.exe to quack3.exe, your FPS would drop by 15%, because they were silently reducing quality to juice their benchmark numbers.

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