STINNER Victor added the comment: I opened the issue #26275 to try to make benchmarks more reliable.
My notes to tune the Linux kernel to reduce the "noise" from the operating system: http://haypo-notes.readthedocs.org/microbenchmark.html#reliable-micro-benchmarks On the speed mailing list, it was also suggested to use the geometric mean rather than the minimum or the average. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26416> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com