<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 10, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Jim Blandy wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>At this point, I'm dying to see an actual distribution of runtimes.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I like Joe's argument about the minimum runtime. I put one beer on it</DIV><DIV>not being Gaussian, to be collected at some future Scheme workshop I</DIV><DIV>manage to attend.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">What does that even mean? Are you suggesting that we run 100 trials, pick the minimum running time, and then repeat <I>that</I> process some number of times?</SPAN></DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV>===</DIV><DIV>Gregory Woodhouse</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:gregory.woodhouse@sbcglobal.net">gregory.woodhouse@sbcglobal.net</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Prediction is difficult, especially of the future."</DIV><DIV>--Niels Bohr</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>