From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-10-08T01:45:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmarks Project and example for `||=`

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
> The point of comparison profiling like this is to find ways to improve
> your code without changing its ultimate function.  Your comparison here
> compares two fundamentally different operations

It struck me as odd that Trans is benchmarking two different things
against each other.

As another example,  I just benchmarked the time it takes me to get up
out of my sofa and walk to my front door and back at about 30 seconds.
 That's over 3 times FASTER than Fernando Alonso's fastest lap of
1:47.976 in the Singapore Grand Prix a couple of Sunday's ago.

So does that make me faster than a Ferrari F10, I don't think so, and
I doubt that it has a practical significance.

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