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Benchmarking can be tricky! In this blog post, I show an example of how easy it is to get the wrong results and how to fix it: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/y...

romainguy.devYou Are Going to Need ItOptimizing code can be a difficult task because there are so many traps you need to avoid at every step of the way. Today I want to focus on one of the (numerous) benchmarking traps, which you may hav...

Aaron Alaniz

@aaron.alaniz.xyz

15 Dec 2024

This is a really insightful and helpful write-up. Thank you! I am curious, though: what were the finalists for the eventual BlackHole API? 😂

Romain Guy

@romainguy.dev

15 Dec 2024

@rahulrav.com might know, since Chris isn't on Bluesky it seems.

Rahul Ravikumar

@rahulrav.com

I don't know what the contenders were to be honest 🙂. These APIs became final before I started looking into Perf. Will ask Chris and get back.

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Aaron Alaniz

@aaron.alaniz.xyz

15 Dec 2024

Don't trouble yourself, I just figured that was a fun one to name 😂

Rahul Ravikumar

@rahulrav.com

15 Dec 2024

It must have been. I think the answer might be a similar API defined by the Java Microbenchmarking harness. Prior art 🙂