When have you seen a vendor or developer publish benchmarks where their product or project was represented as being on par with (or behind) its direct competitors? There must be examples of this, but I’m struggling to come up with any. Regardless, why would anyone choose to do this? I hope this article clarifies why we are publishing these results and helps clear up some very common misconceptions about performance. The first section describes the how and why, but if you want to skip to the resu...