Explanation
HINT is the only benchmark program to clearly identify anomalies in the
performance of supposely identical machines. The above two curves
are from two machines with identical hardware, motherboard,
memory and cache sizes, operating system and compilers with all the same
version numbers (even the purchase date and vendor are the same). But
their HINT graphs are so different. Such differences can be easily
visualized through HINT curves. This experiment was performed by
Dr. Don Heller at Ames Laboratory.
