diff --git a/src/uu/factor/BENCHMARKING.md b/src/uu/factor/BENCHMARKING.md
index e93bed95e..e87c965c2 100644
--- a/src/uu/factor/BENCHMARKING.md
+++ b/src/uu/factor/BENCHMARKING.md
@@ -9,4 +9,26 @@ Those benchmarks can be simply executed with `cargo bench` as usual,
 but may require a recent version of Rust, *i.e.* the project's minimum
 supported version of Rust does not apply to the benchmarks.
 
+
+However, µbenchmarks are by nature unstable: not only are they specific to
+the hardware, operating system version, etc., but they are noisy and affected
+by other tasks on the system (browser, compile jobs, etc.), which can cause
+`criterion` to report spurious performance improvements and regressions.
+
+This can be mitigated by getting as close to [idealised conditions][lemire]
+as possible:
+- minimize the amount of computation and I/O running concurrently to the
+  benchmark, *i.e.* close your browser and IM clients, don't compile at the
+  same time, etc. ;
+- ensure the CPU's [frequency stays constant] during the benchmark ;
+- [isolate a **physical** core], set it to `nohz_full`, and pin the benchmark
+  to it, so it won't be preempted in the middle of a measurement ;
+- disable ASLR by running `setarch -R cargo bench`, so we can compare results
+  across multiple executions.  
+  **TODO**: check this propagates to the benchmark process
+
+
 [`criterion`]: https://bheisler.github.io/criterion.rs/book/index.html
+[lemire]: https://lemire.me/blog/2018/01/16/microbenchmarking-calls-for-idealized-conditions/
+[isolate a **physical** core]: https://pyperf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system.html#isolate-cpus-on-linux
+[frequency stays constant]: XXXTODO