Benchmark a piece of code independent of CPU performance?

I think you are in search of the impossible here, because the performance of a modern computer is a complex blend of CPU, cache, memory controller, memory, etc.

No, there is no such thing. Different hardware performs differently. You can have two different pieces of code X and Y such that hardware A runs X faster than Y but hardware B runs Y faster than X.

There is no absolute scale of performance, it depends entirely on the hardware (not to mention other things like the operating system and other environmental considerations).

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