That's cool, that was all I wanted to establish.
: > My counter claim was that if that were true, things
: > like make would not be deterministic.
:
: But this is also not likely true. As long as the number of cache accesses
: (hits or misses) is relatively high, ie high enough that the cache gets
: turned over fairly frequently, the variances of individual cache access
: timings tend to cancel each other out.
Yes, that's true - and also holds true for the benchmark. I think what you
are saying here is that you shouldn't be seeing high variance in either
the make or the context switch case.
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