docs(handoff): a timed benchmark does not distinguish Windows power schemes
Tried the obvious way round the missing Windows metric: if the reported CPU clock is nominal, measure achieved throughput instead. It does not work, for two independent reasons. Measured, fixed single-threaded integer workload, nine samples each: Balanced median 236.8 ms, MAD 2.2 High performance median 239.2 ms, MAD 2.3 A 2.4 ms delta against a 4.5 ms noise band, sign backwards. By the threshold rule in tuning::verify that is Unchanged. A lightly loaded desktop boosts a single thread to the same place under both schemes. The second reason closes the avenue whatever a sustained all-core run would have shown: a metric that requires running a benchmark competes with the workload it is tuning for. Burning every core to find out whether the machine got faster is self-defeating when it was already busy and meaningless when it was not. So the metric must be passive observation of the real workload's own rate — tokens per second off an inference server simon already detects, not a synthetic load. Recorded as the direction, with the caveat that it is a larger piece of work than a registry entry. The machine's power scheme was recorded with powercfg before the experiment, switched, and restored; confirmed Balanced afterwards from powercfg rather than from simon. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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