Phillip Wood [off-list ref] writes:
it. Having just read Peff's message this does not make much difference
to the test timings and if I'd seen that before I wouldn't have posted
this.
Ah, I forgot about that conclusion, i.e. while this does look the
right thing to do, it didn't make much difference in practice.
It still is tempting to take it, though :-), if only to stop people
sending in the same patch in the future without benchmarking, as
long as it does not make it worse.
Thanks.