[Speed] Getting the project off the ground

Daniel Stutzbach stutzbach at google.com
Wed Jul 6 21:07:48 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:

> that would be really cool. However, I'm not sure it's enough to prevent
> "random noise".
>

A little random noise is unavoidable.  Sometimes the kernel will preempt the
thread, so the kernel can do kernel things.  There's no practical way around
that.

A little random noise is okay, though.  Take several measurements and
compute confidence intervals.

-- 
Daniel Stutzbach
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