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A comment on Broken Performance Tools [pdf].

Re:Broken Performance Tools [pdf] by Ono-Sendai on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @08:20AM (#10620489)
You do need to know what you are doing when doing benchmarking. Doesn't mean that ~100% of benchmarks are wrong.
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Re:Broken Performance Tools [pdf] by feld on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:11PM (#10622382)
They're almost always not able to be replicated, and measuring something almost always skews the results!

Check out gnn's talk on this tooled towards networking in FreeBSD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BcdRHNTdf4

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