> I do wish that when people write about optimization that they would then multiply by usage, or something similar.
How? You can give specific examples and then people make the same complaints because it isn't relevant to their use case. It's fairly easy to extrapolate the numbers to specific cases. We are humans, and we can fucking generalize. I'll agree there isn't much to the article, but I find this ask a bit odd. Do you not have all the information to make that calculation yourself? They should have done that if they're addressing their manager, but it looks like a technical blog where I think it is fair to assume the reader is technical and can make these extrapolations themselves.
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I hear you. However, I have one rule of writing: assume the reader is lazy. It is not that they are, but the assumption goes a long way in making content digestible.
Also, I think knowing the combined effect is super interesting. For example, micro-benchmarks are fun to use and see improvements, but I also want to know the effect on the whole program.