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		igouy on June 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Computer Language Benchmarks Game metric: time... > The culprit is the '+' That annotation does seem to have caused much frothing and gnashing. Here's how the calculation is made — "How not to lie with statistics: The correct way to summarize benchmark results." [pdf] http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/11/papers/Fleming_Wallace...

yorwba on June 1, 2022 [–]

That paper is only about the reasoning behind taking the geometric mean, it doesn't have anything to say on the "time + gzipped source code size in bytes" part.

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