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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