Flawed Microbenchmarks
February 24th, 2005Anatomy of a flawed microbenchmark highlights some of the problems involved in creating microbenchmarks (Java oriented).
The scary thing about microbenchmarks is that they always produce a number, even if that number is meaningless. They measure something, we’re just not sure what. Very often, they only measure the performance of the specific microbenchmark, and nothing more. […]