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"Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery Berger
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 3 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2022–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 91 other talk videos tagged Software performance & optimization, the mean is 3.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 3.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
57% of its 7 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2022–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 64 minutes 48 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2020-10-28.
- Channel / speaker
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Verified runtime
- 1h 4m 48s
- YouTube upload date
- 2020-10-28
- Hacker News mention years
- 2022–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Software performance & optimization. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery BergerCurrent video | 3 | 4 | 57% | — | 1h 4m 48s | 2020-10-28 |
| How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask frameworktalk · Видео с мероприятий {speach! | 15 | 16 | 90% | No recorded overlap | 49m 55s | 2016-07-13 |
| Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)talk · DevGAMM | 14 | 12 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 62m 42s | 2019-07-10 |
| "Performance Matters" by Emery Bergertalk · Strange Loop Conference | 12 | 10 | 60% | 1 (33%) | 42m 15s | 2019-09-15 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system”. Its short rationale: Shows how developers benchmark wrongly and what to do instead.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Disabling Zen 5's Op Cache and Exploring Its Clustered Decoder”. Its short rationale: Emery Berger's work on performance analysis by injecting slowness.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “When Optimising Code, Measure”. Its short rationale: Reveals common mistakes in measuring performance.