Comment by loeg

1 day ago

For something like this, you can just take several trials and look at the minimum observed time, which is when there will have been ~no interruptions.

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/main/folly/docs/Bench...

You don't actually know that for sure. You have only placed a new upper bound.

  • This seems like more of a philosophical argument than a practical one.

    • No, it is a very practical one and I'm actually surprised that you don't see it that way. Benchmarking is hard, and if you don't understand the basics then you can easily measure nonsense.

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