Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> writes: >> Because phoronix uses make -j the compile times are highly random. > > Don't they know how to use 'time' to measure something more useful? > I wouldn't be entirely surprised, last time I looked they didn't seem > to know to use --enable-checking=release when comparing compile time > of snapshots against releases.
While I appreciate Phoronix as a booster site, their benchmarking practice often seems very dodgy; I'd take the results with a large grain of salt.... -miles -- .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
