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On 28 June 2013 14:06, David Tweed <david.tweed at arm.com> wrote: > That's a viewpoint; another one is that statisticians might well have very > good reasons why they spend so long coming up with statistical tests in > order to create the most powerful tests so they can deal with marginal > quantities of data. > 87.35% of all statistics are made up, 55.12% of them could

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There are a few things we have looked at with LNT runs, so I will share the insights we have had so far. A lot of the problems we have are artificially created by our test protocols instead of the compiler changes themselves. I have been doing a lot of large sample runs of single benchmarks to characterize them better. Some key points: 1) Some benchmarks are bi-modal or multi-modal, single