What Daniel Stenberg thinks about software performance

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

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1. 14 Aug 2026

   Our readingPerformance test results are highly dependent on the specific machine, library versions, and other components used, making them hard to compare over time.

   Their wordsPerformance tests are highly specific and dependent on the exact machine it runs on, the exact third party libraries and their versions that are used, the other components involved in the tests, such as the servers, and more.

   ↗curl performancedaniel.haxx.se 2nd of 2 in this piece