How Not to Write a Microbenchmark (2002) (slideshare.net)

Any chance this could be shared somewhere that's not Slideshare?

Slide 6 is wonderful.

As part of an admonition about measuring things wrong, Dr. Click pulls numbers out of thin air. Very convincing!

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Also of interest: 'Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs?'—https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2018/why_arent_more_users_more...

Also excellent:

"A JVM Does That???" by Dr Cliff Click (Video, Presentation, 2016) https://youtu.be/-vizTDSz8NU

The "know what you test" slide is the real painful part. Benchmarks should ideally always be run periodically under a profiler to help you understand what's actually being measured and question your assumptions about your application.