Help learning from my mistakes

Nicholas Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 14:45:28 EDT 2015



On April 5, 2015 8:29:47 AM EDT, Kristof Provost <kristof at sigsegv.be> wrote:
>On 2015-04-05 01:15:31 (-0400), Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
><Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 19:00:42 -0400, Nicholas Krause said:
>> >  are now slower by up to 3 times,
>> 
>> So what debugging did you already do to try to narrow this down?
>>
>While we're on the subject, let me indulge a pet peeve: How did you
>measure this? Can you reproduce the measurement? Is the difference
>statistically significant? What aspect of performance is worse? Task
>switching time? IO throughput?
>
>Benchmarking is *hard*, and 'up to 3 times' is not the result of a
>careful, well thought out benchmark.
>
>Regards,
>Kristof
I ran the make command on all of my CPU cores and timed  it.  Furthermore it seems to be slower up to 3 times then my distribution kernel based off 3.16.
Nick
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