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- Subject: Re: why benchmarks need salt
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:05:35 -0700
> On Jul 20, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> Now, see how the times change with the name of the executable:
>
> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua temp
> 0.91
> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua temp
> 0.91
> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ mv lua lua1
> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua1 temp
> 0.57
> roberto@arraial:~/prj/lua$ lua1 temp
> 0.57
>
>
> -- Roberto
>
Wow .. a 40% improvement .. imagine the gain if you changed the name to lua9 !
Clearly, this technique needs to be patented.
—Tim
