RFR JDK-8059510 Compact symbol table layout inside shared archive

[Gerard Ziemski]

hi David,

On 10/12/2014 8:32 PM, David Holmes wrote:
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>> logs.specjvm.before:
>>    Benchmark           Samples        Mean     Stdev Geomean Weight
>>    specjvm98                 8       81.33      1.47
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>>
>> logs.specjvm.after:
>>    Benchmark           Samples        Mean     Stdev   %Diff P
>> Significant
>>    specjvm98                 8       81.72      0.70    0.48
>> 0.509            *
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> Sample size is too small to give meaningful results.

8 is a too small sample size?

I'm running refworkload benchmarks myself, so I'm curious - what is a 
meaningful sample size for refworkload benchmarks?


cheers