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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Efficient Sequential Access to Arrays
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:31:58 +0200
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robin.vowels@gmail.com writes:

> On Monday, 16 July 2012 04:40:08 UTC+10, Keean Schupke  wrote:

>> The Monte-Carlo simulator I am working on is now performing better in
>> Ada than in C++ using profile-guided compilation (57k simulations per
>> second for Ada vs 56k simulations per second for C++).
>
> One part in 59 is not a significant difference.

That depends on the variance.  But reporting performance numbers without
the corresponding variance/standard deviation is very bad style.

Greetings,

Jacob
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