Benchmarking is harder than you think, even when taking into account this rule. This post lists some lessons I learned while attempting to run benchmarks for A* pairwise aligner. I was doing this on a laptop, which likely has different characteristics from CPUs in a typical server rack. All the programs I run are single threaded. Hardware Do not run while charging the laptopCharging makes the battery hot and causes throttling. Run either on battery power or with a completely full battery to p...
