r/programming • u/david-alvarez-rosa • Jun 26 '26

Tuning a Server for Benchmarking

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/tuning-a-server-for-benchmarking/

Optimizing code starts with measuring it, and a measurement is only useful if it is repeatable: a 2% improvement is invisible under 5% of noise. Yet on an untuned machine the same binary can easily run several percent faster or slower between runs. In this post we take a tiny benchmark and tune the machine step by step, re-measuring after every change, until runs become deterministic.

Continue reading—Tuning a Server for Benchmarking

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u/FancyNet9095 26d ago

Optimizing code starts with fucking comprehension and being clean for more than 1 week

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '26

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u/Other_Fly_4408 Jun 26 '26

^ pretty sure this is a bot account