Steve Holden wrote: > 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" ...] Apparently the "off-list" part was a desire that didn't become reality. Sorry, I'll shut up now.
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