Hi, i added the garbage collect and the numbers are better ! There are fluctuations but no more "random-like" variations of the measured values.
I computed the standard error which is, for all measures i did, inferior to 0.5% of the mean (then the confidence interval is good). Thank you both :) Steven. Le 2017-06-14 22:08, werner kassens a écrit : > On 06/14/2017 09:12 PM, Steven Costiou wrote: > >> repetitions timesRepeat:[ results add: [1000000 timesRepeat:[o m]] >> timeToRun]. > > Hi Steven, > > the influence of the garbage collector is in cases like these often somewhat > difficult to forecast. i would eventually change the code to: > > repetitions timesRepeat:[ Smalltalk garbageCollect. results add: [1000000 > timesRepeat:[o m]] timeToRun]. > > and if i wanted to see the influence of the garbage collector i would enlarge > repetitions and diminish 1000000 in such a way that the product remains > constant. of course one would not want to destroy that influence completely > as in the real world it always takes its toll. > werner
