>My timings for the knapsack problem are quite variable--roughly +/- 10% >between runs. I don't see anything in the code that would produce this >variability--it looks to be deterministic. Could this be caused by the >virtual machine? > >Bill
The tics are "wall clock" time - the time the machine was running. If you were reading mail or surfing, you would expect the time to vary. I'd be suprised to see 10% variation on bare machines running nothing else. - jeff parker
