The fact that you're talking about probabilities sort of proves my point. You're instead saying it could be worse, and I'm saying random execution times in your

The fact that you're talking about probabilities sort of proves my point. You're instead saying it could be worse, and I'm saying random execution times in your critical paths is generally undesirable. It depends on your application of course, but if you have anything realtime or near realtime, I would definitely take consistent execution times. There is a related e-mail from IdSoft's John Carmack about this at [1] which I found very interesting. [1] http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carmack-on-inlined-code.html http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...