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On 11/12/13, 2:38 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Sorry about that. Why do we show them in percentages, btw? Standard
> deviation is usually represented in the same unit as the data to make it
> readable.
>

Consistency. perf-stat shows relative stddev, for example.

David