617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

1075.558 - 1102.353 John Siracusa

a good one it can be gamed it can be cheated it's not representative of real performance or okay well i'm playing a game i get better frame rates than this well that that it has a good port on this platform but a bad port on that platform so that's not good a benchmark either all we did was argue about how benchmarks didn't mean anything and now in in the modern age go to any youtube video listen to any podcast and you're just like oh well this is what geekbench says and this is what the benchmarks say and nobody argues about it anymore they're just like yeah the benchmark says this is faster so i guess it must be faster