Benchmarks are Boring
Benchmark results are boring. The worst form of spectator sport invented. So what do I do to make them interesting as well useful?
Reading benchmark results is boring.
There. I said it.
And I say that a someone who really enjoys performance benchmarking. I say that as someone who wrote a benchmark. I say that as someone whose income (in part at least) is derived from being able to run and interpret benchmark results!
And yet, here I am telling you reading benchmark results is boring.
It’s got be the worst possible spectator sport. Let’s take the exciting competitive bits about sports, swap out corporate entities for humans, remove the human talent and replace it with machines and see how many people will cheer for each side 😁
Yet that is my burden.
Right now, I have access to the latest generation CPUs from not one but two major manufacturers. I’m ashamed to say I’ve been sitting on one of these for far longer than I’d care to admit. I’ve run the benchmarks. I’m just stuck on how to make you want to read them.
Sure, I could just present the results, and pitching a couple of vendors head to head might get a few clicks… but honestly, you can just go see that for yourself on our FLOPx platform anyway.
Yea about that… I know it’s been a little neglected this year. I know that because when Eduardo started with us earlier this year and I thought I should give him a demo of it, I couldn’t even remember the URL. Or the name. Oops. D- See the headmaster after school.
I have some ideas about what could be interesting to look at rather than just presenting the usual headline scores, but then I’m weird. I mean I just admitted to enjoying running performance benchmarks!
I could guess about how to do something interesting to present these results. Or I could just ask you dear reader. What do you care about?
