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Re:Clang Format Tanks Performance by igouy on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:40AM (#21606521)
> faster on average

What kind-of time measurements? What kind-of average?

This chart shows some time measurements:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

:and the geometric mean is faster for the C++ programs, but the median seems faster for the rust programs.

Statistical artifacts?

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Re:Clang Format Tanks Performance by steveklabnik on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:52AM (#21606659)
> What kind-of time measurements? What kind-of average?

I interpreted the parent to mean a simple average, so I did exactly that: calculated the percentage for each, and averaged them. In the colloquial term, "mean".

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Re:Clang Format Tanks Performance by igouy on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:46AM (#21649453)
typo ? "the colloquial term" is "average", the specific term is "mean".
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Re:Clang Format Tanks Performance by The_rationalist on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:16PM (#21611132)
Geometric mean is the implicit default measurement for benchmarking
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