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> 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.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1Acy5eGbE&t=306s



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