One Mean Can’t Rule Them All
Abstract
There has been extensive debate on how to summarize performance results, especially within the computer architecture community. This article presents a systematic approach to choosing the correct mean, aiming to answer this question for all computer scientists once and for all.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Software System Performance and Reliability
Numerical Methods and Algorithms
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Computer
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 49–58
- Publication date
- 1 February 2026
- Language
- EN