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Aye, there's the trouble with starting with a quick and dirty design then accreting bits on to it. :(

The validation step is important as a check that the tested code is behaving as advertised, but can introduce extra benchmarked code that is unrelated to the code being tested. If I get time I'll revisit the code and fix it, but it may take a while before I get to it.

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