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>> Tuning operating system for single benchmark is an example of that childish
>> behaviour.
>
> LOL. That's what "we" did several years ago :
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/dfly.html

i've seen that page some time ago but i don't really care of it.
i just wasn't interested.

Still - DOING such benchmark is good, as it can show general problems in 
used algorithms.

But working on software to make it better in some kind of synthetic 
benchmark is common in commercial software world. ("We have more 
performance per buck than company X")