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On Jul 30, 12:38=A0pm, fft1976 <fft1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 10:59=A0am, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > "shaky results"? Didn't you confirm those results yourself?
>
> Perhaps he is referring to I/O being the bottleneck. I have to say, if
> this is true, it undermines the usefulness of the benchmark to me.
>
> Take it easy.


His measurements suggest about 1.7s of a 6s difference might be
accounted for by slow Text_IO in programs that write 245MB.

The benchmarks game measurements are made with stdout redirected to /
dev/null - we don't know if that was also the case for the
measurements reported by Georg Bauhaus.