[openib-general] [PATCH] rewrite perftest/README

Paul Baxter paul.baxter at dsl.pipex.com
Wed May 18 22:32:32 PDT 2005


Grant, Michael

Great work!

I wanted to point out a recent thread on comp.arch discussing the merits of 
using the geometric mean instead of the arithmetic mean as a basis for 
sampling the timing of a population.My statistics is a bit rusty, but 
calculating and presenting GM might be useful a well?

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.arch/browse_thread/thread/3f5a9ed1d79ed726/416e58b5e48c1715?q=geometric&rnum=6&hl=en#416e58b5e48c1715

[comp.arch, 'SPEC use of Geometric Mean', May 13th, 2005, John Mashey ] 





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