>>Less difference than you're saying! I was talking microseconds. 
>>Your best case was 16 milliseconds for 1000 tests, and the 
>>all-in-one was 44 milliseconds for 1000 tests. That's a difference 
>>per test of only 28 millionths of a second, or about a 40th of a 
>>millisecond.
>
>Whoa--hold on. A millisecond is 1/1000 of a second, no? Comes from 
>the Latin word for 1,000.  A microsecond is a millionth of a second. 
>Methinks you may be standing on your head ;-)


Don't think I am, that's the kind of thing I would notice. It would 
be harder to type e-mails for a start.

1000 tests that take a total of 28 milliseconds (the difference 
between your best and worst times) means that one of those tests is 
taking 28 microseconds, or 1/36th of a millisecond.


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