> So what's your apparently more correct understanding of some of those words? My guess would be "I care about results, not how you get them". Which is a compl

> So what's your apparently more correct understanding of some of those words? My guess would be "I care about results, not how you get them". Which is a completely acceptable policy if your workloads line up exactly with the benchmarks. The benefit of trying to "peek behind the curtain" is mostly for trying to extrapolate anything else from the benchmark results (how would it perform on my different workload? which setups are worth benchmarking anyway? what could I change to improve the performance?).