Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 17:58:06 EST

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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.

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