[titzer]

> there's an element of artificiality to them. In particular, testing the performance of the sync system while simulating many users typing into the same document doesn't really measure behaviour we have observed "in the wild".

I've seen Matt's work and I think it's quite reasonable to benchmark a concurrent datastructure under concurrent load. Placing systems under high load, even just as a limit study, is how we reveal scalability bottlenecks, optimize them, and avoid pathologies. It's part of good engineering.

If your work can produce more representative workloads from the real world, then they could add to the field's knowledge with new benchmarks.