Archive of posts with the tag Benchmarking

• Oct 10, 2022: The Cost of Safety in Java

  Overhead of Null Checks, Array Bounds, and Class Cast Exceptions in GraalVM Native Image

• Sep 30, 2021: How do we do Benchmarking?

  Impressions from Conversations with the Community

• Jul 7, 2020: Is This Noise, or Does This Mean Something? #benchmarking

  Do my performance measurements allow me to conclude anything at all?

• May 27, 2019: Generating an Artifact From a Benchmarking Setup as Part of CI

  Disclaimer: The artifact, for which I put this automation together, was rejected. I take this as a reminder that the technical bits still require good documentation to be useful.

• Oct 25, 2016: Cross-Language Compiler Benchmarking: Are We Fast Yet?

  Research on programming languages is often more fun when we can use our own languages. However, for research on performance optimizations that can be a trap. In the end, we need to argue that what we did is comparable to state-of-the-art language implementations. Ideally, we are able to show that our own little language is not just a research toy, but that it is, at least performance-wise, competitive with for instance Java or JavaScript VMs.

• Jun 25, 2016: Writing Papers with Completely Automated Data Processing

  One of the first things that I found problematic about paper writing was the manual processing and updating of numbers based on experiments. Ever since my master thesis, this felt like a unnecessary and error prone step.

• Sep 18, 2011: Using R to Understand Benchmarking Results

  Why R?

• Sep 5, 2009: How to use Pharo/Squeak from the Command-line

  Along the way to measure the performance of a Smalltalk implementation for commodity multi-core systems, I tried to use Pharo as a more convenient development platform. Well, and I failed in the first attempt…