Constructing a reproducible test environment

[doyougnu]

This section is a list of things to disable/change to reduce noise in measurement. It should also link to similar lists and provide shell one-liners to achieve the things in the list.

references:

• https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/08/02/Perf-measurement-environment-on-Linux

[hsyl20]

It could be useful to mention tools like hyperfine: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

It detects outliers and in my case it was an indication that I had forgotten to turn off turbo-boost.