<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Interpreting these Results</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"> <link rel="home" href="../../index.html" title="Math Toolkit"> <link rel="up" href="../perf.html" title="Performance"> <link rel="prev" href="perf_over.html" title="Performance Overview"> <link rel="next" href="getting_best.html" title="Getting the Best Performance from this Library"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="perf_over.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../perf.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="getting_best.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="math_toolkit.perf.interp"></a><a class="link" href="interp.html" title="Interpreting these Results"> Interpreting these Results</a> </h3></div></div></div> <p> 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. </p> <p> 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. </p> <div class="caution"><table border="0" summary="Caution"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Caution]" src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/caution.png"></td> <th align="left">Caution</th> </tr> <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p> 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 that may be! </p></td></tr> </table></div> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006 , 2007, 2008, 2009 John Maddock, Paul A. Bristow, Hubert Holin, Xiaogang Zhang, Bruno Lalande, Johan Råde, Gautam Sewani and Thijs van den Berg<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p> </div></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="perf_over.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../perf.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="getting_best.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>