Comment by sestep

Great post, thanks for the link! I think you and I were just focusing on different things. You gave a broader discussion of the topic from a few different angles, with more specific basic numbers about CPUs as well as more realistic benchmarks than what I have here. I just wanted to focus on the simplest example I could think of, and run it on as wide a range of different array sizes as I could.

The reason I chose "time per element" then follows from that different goal, because I was comparing across vastly different array sizes, so no other metric I could think of would have really worked for the charts I was drawing.