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diff --git a/benchmark/README.md b/benchmark/README.md index e37abad2..c7d75e42 100644 --- a/benchmark/README.md +++ b/benchmark/README.md @@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ To achieve this, we use a sample program ("test-instr.c") where each path is equally likely, supply it a single seed, and tell AFL to exit after one run of deterministic mutations against that seed. +**Note that this is not a real-world scenario!** +Because the target does basically nothing this is rather a stress test on +Kernel I/O / context switching. +For this reason you will not see a difference if you run the multicore test +with 20 or 40 threads - or even see the performance decline the more threads +(`-f` parameter) you use. In a real-world scenario you can expect to gain +exec/s until 40-60 threads (if you have that many available on your CPU). + Usage example: ``` |