nofib comparisons between 7.0.4, 7.4.2, 7.6.1, and 7.6.2
Simon Marlow
marlowsd at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 10:44:23 CET 2013
On 06/02/13 22:26, Andy Georges wrote:
> Quantifying performance changes with effect size confidence intervals - Tomas Kalibera and Richard Jones, 2012 (tech report)
This is a good one - it was actually a talk by Richard Jones that
highlighted to me the problems with averaging over benchmarks (aside
from the problem with GM, which he didn't mention).
This paper mentions Criterion, incidentally.
> • [[1]] J.E., Smith. Characterizing computer performance with a single number. CACM 31(10), 1988.
And I wish I'd read this a long time ago :) Thanks. No more geometric
means for me!
Cheers,
Simon
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