Quote Originally Posted by flippin_waffles View Post
Are there a lot of real world modern consumer software that still use x87 code? I can't think of any off the top of my head, but maybe i've missed a niche that you could pigeon hole my argument into.
yes, depending on your definition of modern. i'll assume that it means the program is still in use. i could disassemble a shatload of binaries to show you the "f instructions" (x87 instructions begin w/ the letter f.) which imo are as bad as the f word, but the x87 is there none the less.

furthermore x87 does not make anything synthetic. it makes it legacy software or at the least implies it. do i think superpi is a good bench? no. but is it synthetic? no. i'm not really into extreme OCing due to "budgetary constraints" but superpi is a de facto benchmark that the OCers like and there is nothing wrong with it for what they do.