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“Things Have Changed”<\/a> – Bob Dylan (1999)<\/p>\n

“Everything, still remains the same”
\n“(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay”<\/a> – Otis Redding (1967)<\/p>\n

tl;dr embarking on quantifying meaningful indicators of small computer system performance over the last three decades<\/strong><\/p>\n

In graduate school and subsequent professional work, analyzing performance of computer systems was often my primary effort, including much of the software I wrote, and my first three books. Years ago I pontificated about Meaningful Indicators of System Performance<\/a>, surveying the (mostly) synthetic benchmarks in vogue in 1990. I was also active in the formation of the Business Applications Performance Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those interests have mostly taken a back seat in the last three decades. Recently, I was remarking to a friend, also an expert in systems performance, how my new Raspberry Pi<\/a> Zero 2 W seemed so much faster than the original Raspberry Pi Zero W I had been using, that browsing with Chrom(ium)<\/a> in the Zero 2 was viable in a way it is not with the original. He asked me to quantify the difference but I couldn’t at the time. That has spurred me to embark on trying to meaningfully characterize performance of the small computers I’ve used since 1991.<\/p>\n

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          Some of my three decades of computers,
          iMac in the upper left, three Raspberry Pi Zeroes circled in red<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Rigorous success seems impractical if not impossible:<\/p>\n