Introduction This document contains extra material that supplements the article. Robust Java benchmarking Proper benchmarking, and associated areas like statistics, is sufficiently complicated, with so many details that matter, that it is impossible to write a comprehensive benchmarking article and still have it be accessible to the general developer. So, the material in the IBM developerWorks articles was a culling of the most essential and readable points. I owe a major debt to my technical editor, Brian Goetz, for his reader's perspective and feedback in this area. But there remains material for the individual seriously interested in benchmarking that needs to be documented somewhere. Hence this document. In addition to the guidance of my technical editor, I would also like to thank Cliff Click, Doug Lea, David Holmes, J. P. Lewis, and Matthew Arnold for their reviews and feedback on early drafts of the article. Last, but not least, thanks to the staff at IBM developerWorks, especially Jennifer Aloi and my production editor Eileen Cohen.
Introduction This document contains extra material that supplements the Robust Java benchmarking article. Proper benchmarking, and associated areas like statistics, is sufficiently complicated, with so many details that matter, that it is impossible to write a comprehensive benchmarking article and still have it be accessible to the general developer. So, the material in the IBM developerWorks articles was a culling of the most essential and readable points. I owe a major debt to my technical editor, Brian Goetz, for his reader's perspective and feedback in this area. But there remains material for the individual seriously interested in benchmarking that needs to be documented somewhere. Hence this document. In addition to the guidance of my technical editor, I would also like to thank Cliff Click, Doug Lea, David Holmes, J. P. Lewis, and Matthew Arnold for their reviews and feedback on early drafts of the article. Last, but not least, thanks to the staff at IBM developerWorks, especially Jennifer Aloi and my production editor Eileen Cohen.
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