Yep. And I think I stated that in the beginning of the article. :) This one: > It is important that you understand one thing before we start. If you use all t

Yep. And I think I stated that in the beginning of the article. :) This one: > It is important that you understand one thing before we start. If you use all the advices in this article it is not how your application will run in practice. If you want to compare two different versions of the same program you should use suggestions described above. If you want to get absolute numbers to understand how your app will behave in the field, you should not make any artificial tuning to the system, as the client might have default settings.