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Re: Timing in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg74792] Re: Timing in Mathematica
• From: "Ray Koopman" <koopman at sfu.ca>
• Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 04:13:22 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 2, 9:28 pm, "Szabolcs" <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> For some reason, when I record several timing values with Table,
> the first one is always larger then the rest (significantly larger
> for short times).

I asked about the same thing in August 2004 under 5.0:

http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2004/Aug/msg00530.html

I got no response. The effect persists under 5.1 and 5.2,
but all the times are shorter.