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.

Slow AES GCM encryption and decryption with Java 8u20

I am trying to encrypt and decrypt data using AES/GCM/NoPadding. I installed the JCE Unlimited Strength Policy Files …

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Is stopwatch benchmarking acceptable?

Does anyone ever use stopwatch benchmarking, or should a performance tool always be used? Are there any good free tools …

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Can someone please explain what these ApacheBench results mean?

i'm trying to figure out how to use ApacheBench and benchmark my website. I installed the default site project (it's …

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Display the time it takes each vagrant ansible task to complete

I'm converting a vagrant provisioner from shell to ansible and I was wondering if there's any option to show the …

task benchmarking vagrant provisioning ansible
Changing the file descriptor size in httperf

I'm doing a series of benchmarks and found the httpperf tool. But the version in my ubuntu 12.04 has a too …

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Has anyone done a performance analysis of boost::asio?

I require socket-like local IPC. I used named pipes and overlapped IO on windows and I want to rewrite the …

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Benchmarks comparing Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Tesla K20

To my surprise, I cannot find a comparison of these products using open source OpenCL benchmark suites, such as rodinia …

opencl gpu benchmarking nvidia xeon-phi
Go language benchmarks?

I see the claims that Go is supposed to be almost comparable in speed to C, but are there any …

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Benchmark: BSON vs JSON

Following this benchmark BSON needs more disk-space, time to create, serialize, deserialize and traverse all elements. The big advantage of …

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What is the difference between TPC-C, TPC-E and TPC-H benchmark?

I am getting confused with different types of TPC benchmarks. What are the major differences between TPC-C, TPC-E and TPC-H …

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