RFC: startup time - again
Alexander Belchenko
bialix at ukr.net
Fri Sep 12 10:20:29 BST 2008
Russel Winder пишет:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 11:11 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>
>> You can think what you want but this is the best numbers for 10 runs.
>> Yes, of course numbers is not stable. So what?
>
> So why not say that you took the average over 10 runs so as to allay
> fears of people who think decision making based on a single data point
> is not a clever thing to do? I assume this is the average and not just
> the best, since that would be equally fallacious as testing on just one
> data point.
>
> The so what about things not being stable is that to focus on a supposed
> 5% improvement when the variance is 10% is a waste of everybody's time.
Fair enough and enough for me.
I show the numbers as answer on Mark's question.
Yes, I think smaller library.zip has its impacts on startup.
It's low but it's not zero.
Because most of the people don't care about this I have no desire to continue
this useless conversation.
>> I have patched version of bzr.exe that has 70ms faster startup than
>> official one. So this speedup is a real fact, not my imagination.
>
> Fine I have no problem with that as long as the statistics show you are
> right.
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