gistfile1.txt

Comparisons of 20 runs of keywords/prefix "a", limit of 100,000:

old-times = master
new-times = doing sort on strings to avoid parsing and allocating an unbounded amount of KeywordResults
new-times-geometric = changing how bigNHits grows
new-times-geometric-no-sign = no longer permitting negative numbers in the freq column

x old-times
+ new-times
* new-times-geometric
% new-times-geometric-no-sign
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|%   % **                                     +                                     x            x  |
|%%  % ***                                   ++ +                                  xx            x  |
|%%% %OO****                             ++++++ +                                  xxx          xx x|
|%%%%OOO***O  * O                        ++++++ ++         +                       xxxx        xxxxx|
||___A|_|A_|                              |__MA__|                                  |______A___M_|  |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  20         3.853         4.332         4.223       4.07915    0.20454012
+  20         2.581         3.109         2.699        2.7172    0.11675012
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -1.36195 +/- 0.106589
        -33.3881% +/- 2.61303%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 0.166534)
*  20         1.502         1.809         1.584       1.60645   0.077438923
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -2.4727 +/- 0.0989832
        -60.618% +/- 2.42656%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 0.15465)
%  20         1.377         1.825         1.476        1.4814    0.11140368
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -2.59775 +/- 0.105411
        -63.6836% +/- 2.58414%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 0.164693)