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:: I am afraid I am going to have to disagree with you (whoever you are). You can easily get order-of-magnitude differences from cpu speeds alone (for example, if you compared an older mini-itx system with a high-end modern system), and other issues (like system load or memory architecture) can also be significant. (Not that imaginary timings were a particularly persuasive argument in the first place..) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 00:58, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |
:: I am afraid I am going to have to disagree with you (whoever you are). You can easily get order-of-magnitude differences from cpu speeds alone (for example, if you compared an older mini-itx system with a high-end modern system), and other issues (like system load or memory architecture) can also be significant. (Not that imaginary timings were a particularly persuasive argument in the first place..) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 00:58, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |
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::: Do you want the removal of all timings then? |
::: Do you want the removal of all timings then? |
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:::: Some timings can be worthwhile. For example, when you have several different timings based on the same platform, those timings |
:::: Some timings can be worthwhile. For example, when you have several different timings based on the same platform, and time differences greater than a factor of 2, those timings might be meaningful. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 03:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |