1) Asking about running times on code with calls to an RNG ... remove the randomness first, profile repeatedly 2) Outputting to STDOUT can have some serious ov

1) Asking about running times on code with calls to an RNG ... remove the randomness first, profile repeatedly 2) Outputting to STDOUT can have some serious overhead depending on where you're actually rendering the text-- textview inside your IDE? Crazy, off-the-wall terminals? Let's dump this to a file and see how long it takes