Title : Lies, Statistics, and Benchmarks 
Date : 2006-05-25 
Code : "Since the second computer was built, users have compared the performance of different computers. Performance matters. Sometimes, a performance difference is just a question of whether a job will be done sooner or later; in other cases, a performance difference might prevent a job from being done at all. Measuring performance of a particular task is not too daunting, but developing a prediction of how quickly other tasks will run can be nigh impossible. A benchmark is a task designed such that a measure of performance on this particular task will be a <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-spec15/?ca=dgr-lnxw07Benchmarks" target="blank">good proxy for performance across a wide variety of tasks</a>." 
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