Tag Archives: benchmark

Benchmarking Is Hard: Reddit Edition

In which I partially defend Microsoft and further lament the state of tech “journalism”.
A very short open letter:

Dear interwebs:
Please stop mis-representing the results of benchmarks. Or, at a minimum, please stop blogging the results in snide language that shows your biases. It makes the scientific method sad.
Thank you.
Alex Russell
Today’s example of failure made manifest comes [...]

Dojo Wins Mobile Slickspeed Shootout

Stefan K. has posted a fascinating run-down of mobile browser performance with regards to JavaScript toolkits. No big shock, but Dojo once again brings home the bacon. I’d love to see these tests re-run with TaskSpeed instead of SlickSpeed, but when you’re doing progressive enhancement it turns out that selector engine performance really matters. Dojo [...]