Subject: Re: *My* favorite benchmark
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 08/20/2007 22:43:50
> We've seen a lot of semiscientific benchmark numbers thrown around
> lately.  I happen to believe that the only benchmarks that matter
> are properly written microbenchmarks whose correlation to
> architectural features is well understood, and your own application.
> And of course benchmarks where you don't normalize everything you
> can about the system under test are meaningless.

> Microbenchmarks are boring.  My application is compiling operating
> systems, because I do it many times a day for my job.
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It whould be great to see the same tests for NetBSD's LFS file system
on the same hardware.  That is to test ffs vs. lfs for this particular
task.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.