The lost art of benchmarking was Re: Reiser4

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Jonathan,

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:31, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > He also compiled the kernel as a benchmark.  99% of times this is the
> > touchstone for lack of proper thinking in benchmarking.  
> 
> Because I benchmarked an actual task that my readers are likely to
> perform?  

No, because if you benchmark a file system you shouldn't benchmark a CPU
intensive task like compiling a kernel as file system performance will
only have a relatively small impact on the compilation time
(signal/noise). That sounds like valid criticism to me.

Leonard.

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