One Mean Can’t Rule Them All

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.

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Computer
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2026-02-01
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https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.2025.3592470
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Software System Performance and Reliability
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One Mean Can’t Rule Them All

Ahmed Nematallah
Computer
Software System Performance and Reliability
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One Mean Can’t Rule Them All

Ahmed Nematallah
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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.

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