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On the one hand, peer review takes long enough already. On the other... I saw an influential paper that published obviously-wrong timing data, essentially saying that time(A) + time(B) < time(B). It seems they were including the Python interpreter startup time (~0.1s) in a profile of a ~0.01s algorithm.


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