Performance

[dennis luehring via Digitalmars-d]

Am 31.05.2014 08:36, schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d:
> As well as the average (mean), you must provide standard deviation and
> degrees of freedom so that a proper error analysis and t-tests are
> feasible.

average means average of benchmarked times

and the dummy values are only for keeping the compiler from removing
anything it can reduce at compiletime - that makes benchmarks 
compareable, these values does not change the algorithm or result 
quality an any way - its more like an overflowing-second-output bases on 
the result of the original algorithm (but should be just a simple 
addition or substraction - ignoring overflow etc.)

thats the base of all types of non-stupid benchmarking - next/pro step 
is to look at the resulting assemblercode