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Impressive-looking benchmark improvements often result from comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline rather than a genuine advance.
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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance
It's easy to get impressive-looking results if you're comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline, and that observation turns out to explain a surprising fraction of supposed improvements.
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↗Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreterblog.nelhage.com
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