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Great point. While geometric means are a little tricker for people to understand, they are definitely one of the better ways of looking at performance data since they describe the central tendency of the data. I personally prefer using the 95th or 99th percentiles because they force you to keep the mindset that you need to be fast for everyone (sans outliers of course).



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