(exp) alex@alex-pc ~/devel/checksumexperiment $ python2 checksum_benchmark.py

Benchmark Report
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BenchmarkChecksumCalculation
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                       name | rank | runs |     mean |        sd | timesBaseline
----------------------------|------|------|----------|-----------|--------------
                  bytearray |    1 |  500 | 0.001795 |  0.000205 |           1.0
concatenating nonfunctional |    2 |  500 | 0.002551 | 0.0003038 |  1.4208369179
              concatenating |    3 |  500 | 0.004714 | 0.0005135 | 2.62599970624
                 new format |    4 |  500 | 0.004739 | 0.0004876 | 2.63955488753
                 old format |    5 |  500 | 0.005273 | 0.0003463 | 2.93721190094
                          c |    6 |  500 | 0.007743 | 0.0008518 | 4.31275722241

Each of the above 3000 runs were run in random, non-consecutive order by
`benchmark` v0.1.5 (http://jspi.es/benchmark) with Python 2.7.12
Linux-4.13.0-16-generic-x86_64 on 2017-11-23 09:11:28.