JavaOne long ago, there would be mixed messages: both "So a benchmark that ends in less than 10 sec probably does not measure anything interesting." and in blog post benchmarks "100000000 hashes in 5.745 secs … 100000000 primes in 1.548 secs"
(Goldilocks would know.)
> … different machine workloads…
I'm happy to accept that you didn't mean no parallel programs.
JavaOne long ago, there would be mixed messages: both "So a benchmark that ends in less than 10 sec probably does not measure anything interesting." and in blog post benchmarks "100000000 hashes in 5.745 secs … 100000000 primes in 1.548 secs"
(Goldilocks would know.)
> … different machine workloads…
I'm happy to accept that you didn't mean no parallel programs.
> … very hard to generalise …
Indeed.
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