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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:50:28 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
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 
Message-ID:  <24131.1166205028@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:09:52 %2B0100." <200612151609.53750.shoesoft@gmx.net> 

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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.

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