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Yep. The most recent example that's stuck in my head is actually much worse: they didn't even take the mean! One sample!

https://github.com/denoland/pm-benchmark

Check the run bench shell script (there's not much else in the repo anyways)

Hey, that's perfectly valid for arguing with your friend about which one to deploy on our server, all things equal.

I do this sort of thing to see what tools are faster all the time. ripgrep, ag(silver searcher), grep, MongoDB was one we were arguing about for a while recently.

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