https://lwn.net/Articles/82828/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Linux lacks testing methodologies (NewsForge)". en-us Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:24:38 +0000 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:24:38 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/83004/ https://lwn.net/Articles/83004/ error27 I think it's important to talk about benchmarking vs reliability testing and testing for developers vs for administrators. This article is focussed on benchmarking.<p>Developers are foces on changing tiny things one at a time. Developers ask, &quot;Is there a speed up from making a function inline or does that trash the cache and cause cache misses?&quot; Administrators are thinking about the over all picture. &quot;How does 2.4 database performance compare to 2.6.&quot; For a developer, this is too general to be usefull. <p>The admin benchmark that Mindcraft had an effect and generated some new code. Other than that, most admin benchmarks are pretty boring.<p> Sat, 01 May 2004 02:36:31 +0000