Despite a completely different cultural setting, the results were much the same as in India: pay did not increase performance, in fact it lead to worse performance.

结果表明，尽管实验所在的文化背景不同，结果却与印度的非常相像：报酬没有提升表现，事实上反而降低了表现。

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Even a drunk has some reflexes. "If you fall asleep, your performance is much worse," he said.

即使是醉酒驾车都要好一些，“如果你睡着了，那就真的太糟糕了。”他说。

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Tests 11 and 83-85 show that extent sizes smaller than 32 make performance progressively worse because of the extra allocations, but suggest that extent sizes larger than 32 are unlikely to help much.

test 11 和 test 83-85 表明，如果区段大小小于 32 页，则性能会逐步下降，因为要进行额外的分配，但是让区段大于 32 这样的建议也未必有帮助。

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