I think either is a good choice for knowing nothing about the data set. After n grows large enough, I think you’d want to benchmark your -exact- dataset on you

I think either is a good choice for knowing nothing about the data set. After n grows large enough, I think you’d want to benchmark your -exact- dataset on your -exact- prod hardware. Some datasets may cause certain trees to perform badly. Some hardware is much faster at memory lookups and cache misses are not as painful. For instance, developing locally on Intel and deploying to Arm could yield pretty wild performance differences!