On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 10:47 PM, Chris Nandor wrote:
> Benchmarks on Mac OS are notoriously unreliable. If your email app
> decides
> to look for email, it can throw off your benchmark, etc. I wouldn't
> worry
> about such a small number. If you saw a difference of 1 minute to 2
> minutes instead of 1 second to 2 seconds, that could possibly be
> worrisome.
> You need to run benchmarks a few times and look at the results, and even
> then be skeptical.
I don't see why you should single on the Mac OS here :-).
You should always run more than one benchmark and apply statistics to
the results.
If you are running on a pre-emptive OS, and the kernel decides to give
some other task a big chunk of CPU time during your operation, you'll
get different results too.
--
Jim Correia
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