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Bill Venners

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Benchmarks Mean Nothing Posted: Nov 6, 2002 1:02 AM
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Dion Almaer writes, "Benchmarks suck. Lets face it. Even the most well designed benchmark only does a performance comparison within strict bounds. In a running race this is fine, as there are not that many variables. In the enterprise computing world, benchmarks mean next to nothing."

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/2240

What do you think of Dion's comments?

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