otsukare Thoughts after a day of work

About Publishing Code Benchmarks

We often see code benchmarks. Some browser X HTML renderer is faster than browser Y renderer. Some JavaScript engine outperforms the competition by two folds.

While these benchmarks give a kind of instant gratification for the product, they always make me dubious coming from anyone. If the target is to outperform another browser, then I sense that nothing useful has really been accomplished. Even as a marketing technique, I don't think it's working.

When/if publishing a benchmark, focus on three things:

These will be benchmarks blog posts I like to read. So as a summary

Good benchmarks show 1. Outperform your own code 2. Real websites improvement demos 3. Give Technical explanations.

Otsukare!