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On a busy machine compare two builds in alternating runs and medians: single runs of one move swung 82 to 484 ms

Rule

If before-and-after frame numbers jump between runs on a shared machine, run the two builds alternately at each CPU rate and compare medians; at 4× CPU even medians may be too noisy to judge.

Snippet
// before: all runs of build A, then all of build B
for (const b of [A, B]) for (let k = 0; k < 3; k++) results[b].push(await run(b));
// after: A, B, A, B... so a slow spell on the machine falls on both
for (let k = 0; k < 6; k++) for (const b of k % 2 ? [B, A] : [A, B]) results[b].push(await run(b));
const median = (xs) => xs.slice().sort((a, b) => a - b)[xs.length >> 1];
Check

run the same build as both A and B: at 1× CPU the medians agree run to run; if they do not, the machine is too busy for that rate.

Applies to

other: Chrome DevTools CPU throttling, other: Puppeteer or Playwright performance runs

I assumed

one run of each build at 4× CPU slowdown would show which was faster.

What happened

while another test suite held the machine at 42–63% load, single 4× runs of the same arrow step swung from 82 to 484 ms.

The fix

a paired runner alternates before and after at each CPU rate and reports medians; at 1× they agreed run to run, and the 4× rows are reported as ranges, not a verdict.

Evidence

the before-and-after table of the polish round (commit a22aa93).

Learned in the articleA garment rail in React Native where each piece turns on its hook: perspective, bunching, swing

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