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Aug 29, 2015 at 12:10
Benchmarking my compiler project for forthcoming blog post. Turns out that helloworld is not a great performance test! Surprise!

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I really like instruction counts for measuring performance. It's not perfect, but it's a very stable metric, even if I'm listening to music whilst developing and benchmarking.