> we'd have to know what work factor you were testing with Parentheses are not made to be ignored. But I don't think it matters, which is why it was a parenth

> we'd have to know what work factor you were testing with Parentheses are not made to be ignored. But I don't think it matters, which is why it was a parenthetical. The point is the relative differences between different sized strings, not the absolute timings.