[Klinky]

Any document relating benchmarks or performance numbers should include the exact make/model of the hardware involved. So often I see performance numbers reported by developers without much detail on the actual hardware being used. It should be painfully obvious that numbers will vary greatly depending on hardware/platform.

[e98cuenc]

These numbers are gold even without knowing the exact model of the hardware. I always use them when I want to get a rough estimate for a new system. Should I expect milliseconds, seconds or minutes for a given task in a new system?

I don't really care if my real system is 2x faster or slower than the quoted number.