It is interesting to note that SMOTIF is more stable than SMARTFINDER: SMOTIF-P has around 8 times less variance than SMARTFINDER, SMOTIF-2 has around 5 times less variance than SMARTFINDER, whereas SMOTIF-1 has around 17 times less variance than SMARTFINDER. Note also that the overhead in recovering the full positions from the start positions is negligible.