18.5. Using the Benchmark
Since the goal of this benchmark is to test individual XML query operations, we do not propose a single benchmark number that can be computed from the individual query execution times. While having a single benchmark number can be very effective in summarizing the performance of an application benchmark, for a non-application-specific benchmark, such as this benchmark, it may be meaningless.
Similarly, it may be useful to run the benchmark queries in both hot and cold modes, corresponding to running the queries using a buffer pool that is warmed up by a previous invocation of the same query and running the query with no previously cached data in the buffer pool, respectively.
In our own use of the benchmark, we have ...
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