Performance

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/31/14, 2:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/31/14, 11:49 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 10:29 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>> […]
>>>
>>> Well there's quantization noise which has uniform distribution. Then all
>>> other sources of noise are additive (no noise may make code run faster).
>>> So I speculate that the pdf is a half Gaussian mixed with a uniform
>>> distribution. Taking the mode (which is very close to the minimum in my
>>> measurements) would be the most accurate way to go. Taking the average
>>> would end up in some weird point on the half-Gaussian slope.
>>
>> I sense you are taking the piss.
>
> I don't know the idiom - what does it mean? Something nice I hope :o).
> -- Andrei

Found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss. Not sure how to 
take it in context; I am being serious, and basing myself on 
measurements taken while designing and implementing 
https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Benchmark.md.

Andrei