Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:58:06 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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> ... or is this more an artifact that even though the improvements for > real-world are negligible, micro-benchmarks are susceptible to these > variations this making things like the std. dev. larger than it would > otherwise be?
Bingo. If you are trying to measure whether something adds cache misses you really want reproducible runs. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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