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> What happens if you grab the jq source code from Launchpad, then configure and rebuild it with no flags at all? Even that is about 2-4% faster than the Ubuntu binary package.

Why wouldn't that be identical?




-march=native maybe?


Could be measurement noise..


I tough about that. The output of hiperfine mention nothing chi-test or anything about testing distributions…


Because instead of using the Debian build, I just used `./configure; make`


How does that explain it?




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