Top "Benchmarking" questions

Benchmarking is the process of comparing two or more systems or processes under controlled circumstances in order to have a quantitative measure with which to compare or rank them.

What is microbenchmarking?

I've heard this term used, but I'm not entirely sure what it means, so: What DOES it mean and what …

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How am I supposed to interpret the results from Apache's ab benchmarking tool?

Alright, I've searched everywhere and I can't seem to find a detailed resource online for how to interpret the results …

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Can anyone recommend disk I/O benchmarking software for Windows?

I want to test the performance of a filesystem under different conditions. Specifically I want to test the performance of …

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Why is splitting a string slower in C++ than Python?

I'm trying to convert some code from Python to C++ in an effort to gain a little bit of speed …

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Why is Symfony2 performing so bad in benchmarks and does it matter?

My colleagues and I are in the process of choosing a web framework to develop a high traffic web site. …

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Interpreting a benchmark in C, Clojure, Python, Ruby, Scala and others

Disclaimer I know that artificial benchmarks are evil. They can show results only for very specific narrow situation. I don't …

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Changing POST data used by Apache Bench per iteration

I'm using ab to do some load testing, and it's important that the supplied querystring (or POST) parameters change between …

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How to benchmark php/mysql site

I would like to know how to benchmark a php/mysql site. We have a web app almost completed and …

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Is it possible to force an existing Java application to use no more than x cores?

We are benchmarking existing Java programs. They are threaded applications designed to benefit from multi-core CPUs. We would like to …

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How to use Apache Benchmark (ab) to login to a site

I am running a php based web application in Ubuntu platform. I want to perform load testing to 1000 concurrent users …

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