Author: martin fierz
Date: 15:03:43 02/08/02
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On February 08, 2002 at 18:00:10, martin fierz wrote: >On February 08, 2002 at 17:29:39, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >>On February 08, 2002 at 14:39:46, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>On February 08, 2002 at 03:51:14, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Timing is a complex issue. >>>>Believe the profiler. >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Matthias >>> >>>why? what is wrong with my simple experiment? it's so simple, i don't understand >>>what can be wrong about it. and it is real-world, whereas when it's running >>>under the profiler everything is messed up with the profiling code. personally, >>>i never believed the profiler too much, but after this, i don't believe it at >>>all... >>> >>>aloha >>> martin >> >> >> >>Bob Hyatt explained a lot (convincingly) on this topic. >>Search the CCC archive for his postings. >> >>Matthias. > >i did - can't find anything under hyatt & profiler or hyatt & profilint. but do >you really believe that a program doing > >for i=0 to bignumber wait, i wanted to go a line down, not post the message :) so: t = clock(); for i=0 to BIGNUMBER test1(i); t1 = clock()-t; t=clock(); for i=0 to BIGNUMBER test2(i); t2 = clock()-t; will not produce accurate results for how fast test1 and test2 are running? aloha martin
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