Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:17:44 +0000 | From | Neil Conway <> | Subject | Re: Interesting scheduling times - NOT |
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Neil Conway wrote: > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > Just to put to rest the idea that maybe the median is covering things > > up, here's the full set of data, note the small standard deviation: > > > > 2 7.58 (7.74 7.65 7.63 7.60 7.60 7.58 7.58 7.58 7.55 7.54 7.53) > > > > Here's the same thing with each run taking 500 milliseconds (so a total of > > about 6 seconds of run time): > > > > 2 7.73 (8.38 8.14 8.13 8.00 7.94 7.73 7.62 7.60 7.46 7.33 7.04) > > > > Just to scroll things back a few days here guys: (I just noticed this > message in my backlog) > > Anybody else notice that Larry's results are monotonic on both sets of > data ? The chances against monotonicity for each run are 2^9 to 1 > against.
OK, in fact that *probably* means that Larry sorted the data, so forget my comments about monotonicity.
Next question though is why sort the data ? That's throwing away possibly useful information...
Neil
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