Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 2004 16:54:08 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: dentry bloat. |
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On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:14:33AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > so I guess you do. > > Sorry - I'm being thick. > > Is the new hashing good or bad?
That I don't know from the contradicting descriptions, but...
> (Usually, performance is thought of as something 'good', so when you say > it is 'brought down', that sounds 'bad', but since it's ms/iteration, > I'm guessing that you mean to say that the ms/iteration is lower, which > would I guess improves performance, so I'm guessing that bringing > performance down is 'good' in this case, which is not idiomatic to the > particular version of English I happen to speak ... So please favor
In this case, the performance is inversely proportional to the benchmark metric. Lower benchmark metric means better performance.
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