The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman, 1974
In most cases, benchmarking is a kind of performance investigation. Benchmarks allow getting new knowledge about software and hardware. This knowledge can be used later for different kinds of performance optimization.
Once you get the desired level of performance, you usually want to keep this level. And you typically don’t want to have situations when someone from your team accidentally spoils your performance improvements. How can ...
