Since around 1995, the SPEC collection of benchmarks have become widely used.

Computer companies are known to tune their systems to improve performance on benchmark tests that are not representative of real world usage. Benchmarks have been improved to more closely mimic real world usage, so that any tuning carries over to application performance.

Software vendors also use benchmarks in their marketing, such as the "benchmark wars" between rival relational database

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