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That's okay. It survived it's intended lifecycle(*) without incident.

(*)The benchmark.

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Re^4: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2010 at 20:13 UTC
    What's the point of benchmarking code you can't use?
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      I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings. Nothing else makes sense given the purpose of the code.

      But I know I'm not going to use it, so I don't waste time perfecting code that I'm not going to use for all possible scenarios. It'd be like ironing my old newspapers before discarding them :)

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        I could use it. I know the data I'd be passing are byte strings.

        That only excuses the first of the three. Mind you, the third could be documented as a known limitation, but it's probably free to handle.

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