In message <[email protected]>, Martin Matuska writes:

Thanks a lot for doing this properly.

>What significance level should I take?

I think I set ministat(1) to use 95 % confidence level by default
and that is in general a pretty safe bet (1 in 20 chance)

>I hope this approach is better :)

Much, much better.

As I said, this was not to go after you personally, but to point
out that we need to be more rigorous with benchmarks in general.

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