[fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark

[Serguei TARASSOV]

On 17/02/2016 12:00, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:44:42 +0100
> From: Adrian Veith<adrian at veith-system.de>
> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Happy tickets benchmark
>
> small remark for your testing series:
> AVG makes no sense, you should test against MIN  - why ? the measured
> results are contaminated by other activities on your system, so the
> fastest result is the most accurate, because there is no way to make a
> program to run faster, but many ways to make it run slower.
No, the test against MIN shows only the case when the result was 
_minimally contaminated_ in the series. But we don't know whether the 
unused time was bigger or smaller than for other program.
Also, it is very probably that the minimal time in series of 1000 will 
be better that in series of 10 and so on.

The average approach smooth the contaminated time in series for all 
programs.
But you could use some better approaches like the direct measure of the 
time used by CPU or simply remove extreme values.

I don't suppose that it changes anything in the relative comparison that 
is the goal of test.

Regards,
Serguei