Barry Warsaw wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Feb 15, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > >> On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:48, Steve Holden wrote: >>> Greg Ewing wrote: >>>> Steve Holden wrote: >>>>> A further data point is that modern machines seem to give >>>>> timing variabilities due to CPU temperature variations even if >>>>> you always eat exactly the same thing. >>>> >>>> Oh, great. Now we're going to have to run our >>>> benchmarks in a temperature-controlled oven... >>> >>> ... with the fan running at constant speed :) >> >> Unless the fans are perfectly balanced, small changes in gravity are >> going to affect the rate at which they spin. So I guess the >> position of the moon will affect it :-) > > Except on Tuesdays. [off-list, because "this is getting silly" ...]
Anthony's antipodean antecedents (alliteration, all right?) remind me we will also have to factor Coriolis effects in. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Blog of Note: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com See you at PyCon? http://us.pycon.org/TX2007 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
