[Shootout-list] fannkuch

[Christophe TROESTLER]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> 
> Christophe TROESTLER <del-con@tiscali.be> writes:
> > The cosmetic change [...] the new time vastly differs...
> 
> Runtimes of programs differ naturally.

Of course.

> If you benchmark the same program ten times you will likely get ten
> different results.

The point is that the variation is so big w.r.t. the running time
(25%) that it shows the program should run longer to avoid random
effects to take such an importance in the result.

ChriS