Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Measuring Single and Multi Server Performance, here is a quick summary:

Here is a first for my blog: an experiment conducted using something approaching the scientific method. In other ways it wasn't a first for my blog, because it was essentially a complete failure. Damn it.

You are responding to this comment written by Will Larson on February 20th 2009, 21:22.

Further, each test was run three times, and I took the best performing instance of each test (they were run without the server restarting), so these numbers should reflect the speed for fully preloaded code.

I'm certainly interested in what you'd describe as a good/interesting setup to perform testing on.

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