Given that Samsung (and others) have been shown to 'game' benchmark results by forcing the CPU / GPU into modes, power and thermal patterns not available to normal software, I ask the question: Is it ever okay to bake references to known benchmarking suites into an operating system and give them a 'bunk up' using methods not available to developers directly? http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...rking-adjustments-inflate-scores-by-up-to-20/ Personally I think it's never excusable. These techniques allow them to claim (Or allow others to claim!) that device A is (say) 20% quicker than device B when in fact they are identical when running any normal software. If they were enabling a 'boost mode' the developers could have made use of themselves then that would have been different, but it's impossible for normal software to get the boost that the likes of Samsung are selectively giving to benchmark apps. Why not give it to all apps? Because it would kill battery... at least.
