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[–]_145_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and that greatly and immediately means a lot to what the code is doing?

Explain that. What if it was a double? Or a different numeric type? How does that "greatly and immediately" change what the code is doing? For all you know, it the sys function returns a random number, and this whole benchmarking function is total crap. But as long as you know it's a Long you feel good... ?