From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
Subject: Re: Making measurements
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:50:12 +0200
Date: 2010-07-26T15:50:12+02:00 [thread overview]
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Jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I did a few runs with the linux: time ./bench
> on an empty machine and got numbers like this:
>
> 0m3.612s 0m3.604s 0m3.620s 0m3.612s 0m3.620s 0m3.604s
Looks like we have a nice symmetric case where the average and the
median are the same. ;-)
> Some programs fluctuate hugely in running time .. never figured out
> why.
It may be something as simple as which core the program happens to be
running on. Or which operating system processes are running in the
background.
In general it is a good idea to report an average of at least three
timing measurements and the standard deviation of the measurements.
Jacob
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2010-07-23 9:52 compiler settings in AdaGIDE Ada novice
2010-07-23 11:56 ` Gautier write-only
2010-07-23 14:23 ` Ada novice
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2010-07-23 14:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-23 15:16 ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-23 15:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-23 16:51 ` sjw
2010-07-23 18:03 ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-23 18:27 ` Ada novice
2010-07-23 20:33 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-23 19:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-23 21:01 ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-23 22:32 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-24 1:48 ` BrianG
2010-07-23 20:34 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-23 20:52 ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-24 10:30 ` Ada novice
2010-07-24 12:03 ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-24 12:36 ` Ada novice
2010-07-24 18:21 ` jonathan
2010-07-25 13:29 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 19:30 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-26 14:13 ` Ada novice
2010-07-26 15:48 ` sjw
2010-07-26 17:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-26 17:18 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 22:57 ` jonathan
2010-07-26 14:12 ` Ada novice
2010-07-25 23:40 ` jonathan
2010-07-26 8:02 ` Making measurements (Was: compiler settings in AdaGIDE) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-07-26 9:57 ` jonathan
2010-07-26 13:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2010-07-27 15:11 ` compiler settings in AdaGIDE Colin Paul Gloster
2010-08-01 16:39 ` Ada novice
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