> The main trap is trying to benchmark and profile it without the context of the whole application.
Emery Berger's "Performance (Really) Matters" talk also goes into this[0]. He paints a really, really depressing picture of how unreliable benchmarks truly are. Like, things like link order having ridiculous impacts and stuff like that.
The main trap is trying to benchmark and profile it without the context of the whole application.
I recommend to read a comment in ClickHouse source code (disclaimer: written by me)
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/base/gl...