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I am severely lacking in performance analysis skills. Does anyone else spend hours tweaking builds/configs only to then just assume you have made an improvemen

by bcook 12y ago

I am severely lacking in performance analysis skills. Does anyone else spend hours tweaking builds/configs only to then just assume you have made an improvement without confirming it? I wish I had learned of Knuth's "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote sooner.

yeukhon 12y ago
Same here. I think the hard part is choose what to control, how to measure, what to capture. After all performance testing is running experiment. Generating pretty visualization is 1% of the hard work if you have the data you need...