Re: why benchmarks need salt

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Does the same percentual difference hold for longer running
>> benchmarks?  Is it a fixed startup delay, or a real performance
>> difference?
>
> The difference is too big for a startup delay. This is Lua!! :-) Morever,
> we are measuring only an internal loop, not the entire process.
>
> -- Roberto
>

I assume the difference is that it's catching some pathological
behavior in the hashtable -- introducing a collision where otherwise
there would be none, or similar.

/s/ Adam