Re: Benchmarking

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

ravege wrote:
> I have a program that exports binary records to text format.  A sample
> record might be 196MB and the resulting export text file 607MB.  I've
> been using Text_Io to write out the text file, but inspired by the K-
> Nucleotide thread decided to give stream_io a try.  So now I want to
> compare.  I run the old Text_Io version and it takes 133 seconds to
> complete.  I run the Stream_Io version, it completes in 88 seconds!
> Nice improvement, I want to get some more test points so I run the old
> version again and get a 99 second time, okay... I run the new version
> and get a 145 second time to completion.  Is there some optimization I
> should be turning on/off, some OS caching I can configure so I can get
> less variation in my testing?

A dumb measure might be to write a fresh file that the
OS hasn't seen yet.  Otherwise, could it be possible to
formalize Yannick's observations into a testing strategy
that would measure either program in a loop, for a a few
hours or so?