On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:08:55AM -0800, John wrote: > While I agree that the differences as small - on the order of > ms - they are not insignificant nor are they in the noise of the > measurements.
Oh, maybe I wasn't clear - I wasn't talking about statistical significance but rather about practical significance. A minuscule speedup (a lot less than 1%) showing only in a *single* workload so far and relevant only for a *very* *small* number of linux users - only those who build their own kernels - is simply not worth including in the kernel. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/