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My experience is that people that scream the loudest about "performance" are often also people that make micro-benchmarks and derive ridiculous claims from them
by throwawayish 10y ago
My experience is that people that scream the loudest about "performance" are often also people that make micro-benchmarks and derive ridiculous claims from them, and also seem to often be the people that otherwise don't know much about "performance", or be in need of it.
For the by far largest share of web applications, easily everything to the 99th percentile, performance, in the "sense" of this benchmark, is wholly irrelevant.
- crdoconnor 10y ago>For the by far largest share of web applications, easily everything to the 99th percentile, performance, in the "sense" of this benchmark, is wholly irrelevant. Amen to that. Performance is incredibly low on the list of concerns for most businesses I've worked for. Getting code out quickly and making it work reliably are usually priorities #1 and #2. Performance is a "sexy" problem though.