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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-12-03 4:20:06
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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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