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Pro .NET Benchmarking: The Art of Performance Measurement
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Pro .NET Benchmarking: The Art of Performance Measurement

by Andrey Akinshin
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
681 pages
15h 30m
English
Apress
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© Andrey Akinshin 2019
Andrey AkinshinPro .NET Benchmarkinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4941-3_2

2. Common Benchmarking Pitfalls

Andrey Akinshin1 
(1)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
 

If you have spent less than a week studying a benchmark result, it is probably wrong.

— Brendan Gregg, author of Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Prentice Hall, 2013

In this chapter, we will discuss the most common mistakes that people make when they try to measure performance. If you want to write benchmarks, you have to accept the fact that most of the time you will be wrong. Unfortunately, there is no universally reliable way to verify that you get the performance metrics you wanted to get. There are many pitfalls on different levels: C# compiler, .NET ...

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