[zeromq-dev] Mb vs. MB in tests & on the Wiki

[Holger Hoffstätte]

Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Holger Hoffstätte <holger at wizards.de> wrote:
> 
>> Btw I'm doing this just for fun to see how much I can squeeze out of my
>> old gear, so it's not really critical. :-)
> 
> Well, there is a tendency to always test performance on the fastest
> possible hardware and tuned kernels, but IMO this is less useful than
> testing on slower, older infrastructure because inefficiencies are
> more visible and thus easier to eliminate.

..which is exactly why I'm doing it. Bad software sticks out immediately.

-h