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That's true, but the "damage" tends to be limited, because it's shared in person with a handful of people who understand the preliminary nature of the results--- not potentially tens of thousands of people clicking on the front page of Hacker News, who see a very definitive-sounding statement ("Nginx sucks at SSL").

I do think academics overcorrect on this, and should share more early results, possibly via things like blog posts (this is slowly starting to happen). But erring in the opposite direction is also quite common among tech bloggers. In particular, if you're going to publish anything that looks vaguely like a benchmark, it might be worth taking at least a few days to check out possible problems before sending it out into the world (not months or anything, but a few days).




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