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Fair enough, but this is / was a controlled experiment. The codebase did not change, the method through which the cached content was served did. Hence the textu
by igrigorik 19y ago
Fair enough, but this is / was a controlled experiment. The codebase did not change, the method through which the cached content was served did. Hence the textured cube argument is not the best analogy here, I think. :)
Having said that, I agree -- there is a lot of other variables out there, and they should not be swept under the rug.
- disconnect 19y agoThe point of the textured cube analogy was that if you don't consider the context of the benchmark, the numbers aren't useful. The kid doesn't realize that if texturing a cube brings a framerate down from 1200 to 800 fps, is as significant as going down from 62 fps down to 60. Even though that is only a 2 fps difference. A 400% performance gain is a constant performance improvement. I don't think a system like nginx + memcached have linear performance benefits in the first place.