Strange timing data for list.pop()

[Roy Smith]

In article <cMedndDr79XOyZPcRVn-gA at giganews.com>,
 Istvan Albert <ialbert at mailblocks.com> wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> > anybody have any clue what might be causing this behavior?
> 
> Bad experimental setup.

Of course it was a bad experimental setup.  I didn't measure what I set 
out to measure.  But, I did measure something interesting, and I'm 
trying to figure out what it was.