Dear rhesa,
You passed -5 to timethese, which means it should run the benchmark not for a specific number of iterations, but for a specific number of seconds. This is why you see that the wallclock for both "enum" and "list" is exactly 5 seconds. I can't tell why "enum" uses more sys time without seeing the code, but the important bit is that both run for at least 5 cpu seconds
So what is the best way to show the speed comparison in terms of it's time and not iteration/time?
I tried "timediff" as explained in the first part of Benchmark documentation. But it gives the same results as "timethese".

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In reply to Re^2: Interpreting Benchmark 'cmpthese' and 'timethese' by neversaint
in thread Interpreting Benchmark's "cmpthese" and "timethese" by neversaint

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