[stabbles]

For performance benchmarking the minimal runtime is typically the best estimator if the computations are identical, cause it measures perf w/o interrupts.

If the language is garbage collected, or if the test is randomized you obviously don't want to look at the minimum.

[mayank]

> the minimal runtime is typically the best estimator

Depends what you’re estimating. The minimum is usually not representative of “real world” performance, which is why we use measures of central tendency over many runs for performance benchmarks.