[joosters]

The 5ms isn't the key number. It's 5ms extra over a 28ms baseline, that's about 18% difference. If your noise threshold is 18%, then I think you have to accept that the benchmark probably isn't any good for this stated task.

[viraptor]

https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs is good for tests like that. It will give you much more than a single number and handle things like outliers. This makes identifying noisy tests simpler.

[glittershark]

The benchmarking harness that the post uses is based on criterion