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BenchmarkDotNet Measures Performance, But Who Enforces the Budget?
BenchmarkDotNet provides detailed performance measurements but lacks built-in budget enforcement, leaving developers to manually track regressions. A 28% false-positive regression in CI logs highlighted the need for automated, consistent rules rather than manual eyeballing. The author advocates for committed, reviewable, and enforced performance budgets as a separate artifact from measurements.
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The article correctly identifies a gap in performance tooling, but the proposed solution—automated budget enforcement—is not new; tools like GitHub Actions and custom CI pipelines already address this.
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