You do understand that people who know how to benchmark things don’t actually need to conform to the rules of thumb that are given to non-experts so they don’t shoot themselves in the foot, right? Do you also write off rally drivers because they have their feet on both pedals?

i don't know about you but i did my fair share of benchmarking and performance engineering.

the first thing that you learn in that area is that unless you're comparing specific configuration of apples to apples, along with a specific configuration of the workloads, you're basically doing children play.

i mean, it's fine to play and observe, but it's just play. it's not anything to take seriously.

Play is not garbage. A lot of performance engineering is not taking yourself seriously. Signed, someone who is a professional performance engineer :)