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In all of the following tables, the best performing result in each row, is
assigned a relative value of "1" and shown in bold, so a score of
"2" means <span class="emphasis"><em>"twice as slow as the best performing result".</em></span>
Actual timings in seconds per function call are also shown in parenthesis.
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Result were obtained on a system with an Intel 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor with
2Gb of RAM and running either Windows XP or Mandriva Linux.
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As usual with performance results these should be taken with a large pinch
of salt: relative performance is known to shift quite a bit depending upon
the architecture of the particular test system used. Further more, our performance
results were obtained using our own test data: these test values are designed
to provide good coverage of our code and test all the appropriate corner
cases. They do not necessarily represent "typical" usage: whatever
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