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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Benchmarking
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:21:57 +0200
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On 03.08.2014 21:04, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

> HotSpot inlining needs to be considered too, and that depends on the
> global environment.  Not only is that difficult to benchmark, but it can
> dynamically change in the running application too.  The difference can
> be enormous for stream parsing, audio, graphics, etc.

Yes, but this is exactly what a micro benchmark does _not_ try to 
measure.  That's why it is a micro benchmark.  The effects you are 
talking about would be investigated with profiling the real application.

Kind regards

	robert