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From: Keean Schupke <keean.schupke@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Efficient Sequential Access to Arrays
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On Monday, 30 July 2012 07:31:58 UTC+1, Jacob Sparre Andersen  wrote:
> robin.vowels writes:
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> 
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> > On Monday, 16 July 2012 04:40:08 UTC+10, Keean Schupke  wrote:
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> >> The Monte-Carlo simulator I am working on is now performing better in
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> >> Ada than in C++ using profile-guided compilation (57k simulations per
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> >> second for Ada vs 56k simulations per second for C++).
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> >
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> > One part in 59 is not a significant difference.
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> That depends on the variance.  But reporting performance numbers without
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> the corresponding variance/standard deviation is very bad style.
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> 
> 
> Greetings,
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> 
> 
> Jacob
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> -- 
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> "How may I be honest with you today?"


C++: avg=56.415 var=0.001
Ada: avg=57.712 var=0.001

Cheers,
Keean.