AllocationInstrumentationTest#intrinsics fails on x86

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install a 32bit jdk
2. run mvn -Dtest=com.google.caliper.runner.AllocationInstrumentTest#intrinsics 
clean test

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The test should succeed; instead it fails:
Failed tests:   intrinsics(com.google.caliper.runner.AllocationInstrumentTest): 
expected:<1960.0> but was:<1904.0>

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest caliper from git (9788e7)
Debian Jessie 32bit and 64bit
oracle jdk 1.7.0_51 32bit and 64bit (32bit also tested on 64bit OS)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rene.kra...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2014 at 10:14

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Interesting.  I don't think that it's an x86 issue.  This test has definitely 
passed on x86 machines.  It could just be that these numbers are less stable 
that we had imagined when the test was written.

Original comment by gak@google.com on 24 Feb 2014 at 4:52

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Same issue with the following config :

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?Latest 
caliper from git (9788e7ea2f98)
Fedora 20 64bit
java version "1.7.0_65"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-2.5.2.5.fc20-x86_64 u65-b17)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)

Original comment by fpa...@nuecho.com on 6 Nov 2014 at 9:15