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+=======================================================================
+
+The tests are divided by scenario.
+
+Each scenario has the problem it tries to solve, and it does that with several options:
+  - BulkBench only compares handmade solutions vs. JDK bulk operations, without resorting to lambdas/methodrefs
+  - LambdaBench does bulk operations with lambdas/methodrefs
+  - XtrasBench has some other interesting options
+
+All tests in these benchmarks follow the following naming convention.
+Test names is the concatenation of several markers:
+
+{hm|bulk}: infrastructure used
+  - hm: "handmade" version which users would presumably implement otherwise
+  - bulk: JDK8-ish bulk operation
+
+{seq|par}: parallelism mode
+  - seq: sequential mode
+  - par: parallel mode; in "hm" case, this might have different implementations
+
+{.|inner|lambda|mref}: functional interface type
+  - .: no specific meaning
+  - inner: explicit inner class
+  - lambda: JDK8-ish lambda
+  - mref: JDK8-ish method ref
+
+E.g. bulk_seq_inner is the test harnesses JDK8 bulk operations in sequential mode, and explicit inner class as function
+
+All benchmarks should be executed in the following modes (see -t harness cmdline option):
+ - single mode (thread = 1),
+ - core mode   (thread = number of cores),
+ - max mode    (thread = number of HW threads).