Is there a single performance index that's useful for engineers? [LWN.net]

Is there a single performance index that's useful for engineers?

Posted Sep 19, 2017 19:56 UTC (Tue) by james (guest, #1325)
In reply to: Is there a single performance index that's useful for engineers? by k3ninho
Parent article: Testing kernels

Given the context (detecting performance regressions) they might not actually be concerned about comparing different systems. They just want to know if the number goes down on any one system.

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Is there a single performance index that's useful for engineers?

Posted Sep 21, 2017 9:14 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

>Given the context (detecting performance regressions) they might not actually be concerned about comparing different systems.
I'd read it as being a new paragraph which started a wholly new idea in a section about 'Benchmarks and Fuzzing', losing the context of the previous paragraph's words about preventing regressions and being followed by a sentence that could apply to either regression-prevention or to an abstract kernel performance number. Thanks for making this more clear.

K3n.