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Hands-On High Performance with Go
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Hands-On High Performance with Go

by Bob Strecansky
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
8h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Real-world benchmarking

While you are running the benchmarks in this book, be sure to remember that benchmarks aren't the be-all and end-all for performance results. Benchmarking has both positives and drawbacks:

The positives of benchmarking are as follows:

  • Surfaces potential problems before they become unwieldy
  • Helps developers have a deeper understanding of their code
  • Can identify potential bottlenecks in the design and data structures and algorithms stages

The drawbacks of benchmarking are as follows:

  • Needs to be completed on a given cadence for meaningful results
  • Data collation can be difficult
  • Does not always yield a meaningful result for the problem at hand

Benchmarking is good for comparison. Benchmarking two things against one ...

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