From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Dec 15 17:50:35 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38BC16A407
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:50:35 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk)
Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [130.225.244.222])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856F243CAA
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:48:52 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk)
Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [192.168.48.2])
	by phk.freebsd.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B416C1747B;
	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:50:33 +0000 (UTC)
To: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:09:52 +0100."
	<200612151609.53750.shoesoft@gmx.net> 
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:50:28 +0000
Message-ID: <24131.1166205028@critter.freebsd.dk>
Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
	Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP 
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:50:35 -0000

In message <200612151609.53750.shoesoft@gmx.net>, Stefan Ehmann writes:
>On Friday 15 December 2006 14:39, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> Unfortunately, that is not what you have done, because you have
>> not indicated what the standard deviation on your numbers are,
>> so they are totally worthless.

>I've done 3 runs on an otherwise pretty idle system with a maximum deviation 
>of maybe 1 million instructions. So I figured that accurately calculating the 
>standard deviation would overshoot the mark for this primitive test.

If you had included this information, all would have been fine.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.