Re:The performance of compiled code (Score -1)

Yes. 5% gets lost in the noise... and so you're down to 95% performance... but 5% of that is really noise, so now you're at 90.25% ... etc ... until you now have .0000010713372795471389294912528763542% of the performance of your machine that actually matters. Does that make sense? Not really. Your "5%" bound is completely arbitrary.