On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:53:26AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:33:15 +0000 > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We're all very interested in *real* evidence here, because there > > hasn't been any in the past. If you don't have any evidence, you can > > expect people to call bullshit on this. > > Gentoo > > # time bzip2 -9k linux-2.6.0-test5.tar > > real 2m40.974s > user 2m33.679s > sys 0m1.572s > > > Debian unstable chroot within gentoo > > # time bzip2 -9k linux-2.6.0-test5.tar > > real 2m54.505s > user 2m49.316s > sys 0m1.641s
Disregarding the fact that you are measuring the wrong thing (others have covered this adequetely), this isn't statistically significant. You only took two sample points, you have no estimation of accuracy, and you changed multiple variables at once. This could be a textbook example of how to lie with statistics (chapters 4 and 8). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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