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> Yeah, minimum isn't perfect, but it's at least pretty clear what it says You’ve lost me. What is the single, obvious meaning of the minimum measurement, and

> Yeah, minimum isn't perfect, but it's at least pretty clear what it says You’ve lost me. What is the single, obvious meaning of the minimum measurement, and what are you benchmarking against, and what do you intend to get out of the benchmark? Typically the minimum just means “program ran x input as fast as y”, which doesn’t actually help with most questions about performance. If X is constant, and time is the only thing you care about, then maybe that works.

jcelerier 7y ago
> which doesn’t actually help with most questions about performance. well, from a marketing standpoint it means that you are able to write OBSERVED MAXIMUM SPEED : 789634 gigabrouzoufs per second on a core i5-xxxx on your brochure, and you wouldn't be lying, and it would be better that a majority of products which don't even give an observed speed but just a theoretical one.