alt Hacker NewsNo, it is a very practical one and I'm actually surprised that you don't see it that way. Benchmarking is hard, and if you don't understand the basics then you can easily measure nonsense.
No, it is a very practical one and I'm actually surprised that you don't see it that way. Benchmarking is hard, and if you don't understand the basics then you can easily measure nonsense.
You raise a fair point about the percentiles. Those are reported as point estimates without confidence intervals and the implied precision overstates what system clock can deliver.
The mean does get proper statistical treatment (t-distribution confidence interval), but you're right that JMH doesn't compute confidence intervals for percentiles. Reporting p0.00 with three significant figures is ... optimistic.
That said I think the core finding survives this critique. The improvement shows up consistently across ~11 million samples at every percentile from p0.50 through p0.999.