Category Archives: What makes a good benchmark?

Benchmarking a benchmark

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Bill Catchings

July 13 One of the challenges of any benchmark is understanding its characteristics. The goal of a benchmark is to measure performance under a defined set of circumstances. For system-level, application-oriented benchmarks, it isn’t always obvious how individual components in … Continue reading →

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Knowing when to wait

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Bill Catchings

June 15 Mark mentioned in his blog entry a few weeks ago that waiting sucks.  I think we can all agree with that sentiment.  However, an experience I had while in Taipei for Computex made me reevaluate that thinking a … Continue reading →

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