FreeBSD Compiler Benchmark: gcc-base vs. gcc-ports vs. clang
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Mar 12 13:35:40 UTC 2011
In message <4D7B44AF.7040406 at FreeBSD.org>, Martin Matuska writes:
Thanks a lot for doing this properly.
>What significance level should I take?
I think I set ministat(1) to use 95 % confidence level by default
and that is in general a pretty safe bet (1 in 20 chance)
>I hope this approach is better :)
Much, much better.
As I said, this was not to go after you personally, but to point
out that we need to be more rigorous with benchmarks in general.
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