[YLUG] Benchmarking on linux

[Spiros Kapetanakis]

I assume you've had a look at this:

http://linuxgazette.net/issue22/bench.html

In particular, the whetstone section.


Spiros

On 19/05/06, John Spray <spray at lyx.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:39 +0100, chris jefferson wrote:
> > I have a program I'd like to benchmark, for the obvious reason that I
> > want to come if future changes slow down or speed up the program.
>           ^^^^
>
> It's one way of dealing with it.
>
> </childish sniggering>
>
> Anyway, wrt speed testing I suggest you make sure you're using CPU time
> not wall time, running for a decent length of time, and then do whatever
> you're doing 10 times and work out the standard error, automating the
> averaging and errors so that you don't have human error in assessing
> whether your number is reliable or not.
>
> John
>
>
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