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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:20:06 +1100 (EST)
From:      Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
Message-ID:  <199612030420.PAA15467@suburbia.net>
In-Reply-To: <199612030319.VAA25727@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Dec 2, 96 09:19:50 pm"

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> Look, folks, benchmarks are benchmarks.  They are not
> real world performance indicators.  They are simply
> relative artificial performance evaluators, and as 
> such can be influenced by a wide variety of factors,
> including OS tweaks.  I never make the mistake of 
> taking a benchmark's results as an absolute comparison
> of apples and oranges.
> 

Bench marks are not totally useless. Quite often it is hard to find
bottle necks without them. "The system feels slower" isn't going
to do you much good as a diagnostic tool with a monolithic kernel.
This does not imply that they find all bottle-necks.

Julian A.



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