Re: [FWP] Quick hack for common length

[Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>]

> By the way, the n= value is mostly irrelevant.  That's the total number of
> executions, whereas what you really want to pay attention to is the number
> of executions per second:
> 
> Benchmark: running Inline_C, Japhy, Perl, each for at least 3 CPU
> seconds...
> Inline_C: @347539.37/s
>    Japhy: @49496.58/s
>     Perl: @50580.56/s
> 
> Sometimes one snippet will have a larger value for n than a more efficient
> solution, just because Benchmark ran the first one for a longer period of
> time.  (Although that obviously didn't happen in this case.  :)

It also might be the case that the benchmark wasn't run twice on the same 
code and Inline had to re-compile the C source before running it.

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