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Clean Office automation on the server... at last! Check out the
article here: Brian Goetz on micro-benchmarks Brian Goetz writes
on micro-benchmarks and discourages people from writing any. The
first part of the article details why some particular banchmark
is flawed, which is only mildly interesting unless you're
interested in lock performance in Java (and why wouldn't you
be?), but the second part gives excellent advice on performance
testing in general. I thought I would give a pointer to his
article as I've been guilty of micro-benchmarking myself on this
blog more than once. To my defense, I've always said that these
gave only a rough idea of performance in a real-life scenario,
and that any performance testing should be made in the context
of the real application. The problem for us API developers is
that our users ask