Re:A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results
by diminoten on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:13PM
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> any benchmark inherently correlates with every use case
Oh. That's what you thought I said? Right. I didn't mean to say that, and if somehow I did say that I withdraw. Benchmarks are valuable if you know how to use them, but of course I agree with you, a benchmark isn't always relevant to every use case.
Side note, quoting many small portions of a person's comment and replying exclusively to the quoted bits is inferior to replying to them with full sentences/paragraphs. I've only ever seen what you're doing done by folks who are super interested in arguing and completely uninterested in having a conversation.
It definitely comes across like you do have a problem, which you have repeatedly stated you do not (and I believe you)! It just muddies the water, what you're doing here.
Again, I'm not having a problem.
> is you can't figure out how to use benchmarks to understand how a system works
No, I have no partucular problem evaluating whether a benchmark is useful to a decision and if so, how.
Nor have I said anything indicating any such problem.
> You're throwing up your hands and saying, "TOO DIFFERENT FROM REALITY!"
No, I'm saying he naive statement upthread that benchmark performance correlates with every possible use of a technology is nonsense.
That's it.
> Other folks don't do that
Actually, some do, but that's neither here nor there.
> and while not 1:1, they are able to correlate the performance of a benchmark with the performance of their own use case.
Once again, yes, lots of people have the skill to figure out whether and in what way particular benchmarks have utility for their usecases. I explicitly said that in the post you are responding to.
That's very different than your claim that I reacted against, which is that any benchmark inherently correlates with every use case, which is—again—complete nonsense.