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Re: Performance and faster idioms

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Subject: Re: Performance and faster idioms
From: Thomas Reed <tareedlists at mac dot com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:28:47 -0500
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On Feb 28, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Massimo Valle wrote:

I used microseconds to calculate the timing and I continue to get about 3x
speed on if-then. Using ticks I get larger difference: 9x

That doesn't make any sense... Why should the timing method you use influence the total speed of the test code? I would think this means there's something wrong with the test or the calculations somewhere.

-Thomas

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