&#62; All the benchmarks were run 5x each on the same Debian machine<p>I refer the honourable gentlman to Zed Shaw's "Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All"<p><a href="http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html</a>