Over the past three weeks myself and two colleagues have been attempting to benchmark a component of our companies systems. We’ve never formally defined any sort of performance metrics, used profiling tools or infact have any experience with benchmarking. Over this time we needed to quickly learn new techniques and often make up new ones where needed, and this is one of those topics that was created based on research, empirical evidence and a peculiar few months dealing with stock trading systems.
Steady State – Any state that does not change over time, or is in a dynamic equilibrium[1]
