On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo <juanmanuel.c...@gmail.com > wrote:
> This is a small util I wrote in D which is like the unix > 'time' command but can repeat the command N times and show > median, average, standard deviation, minimum and maximum. > > As you all know, it is not proper to conclude that > a program is faster than another program by running > them just once. > > It's BOOST and is in github: > > https://github.com/jmcabo/**avgtime <https://github.com/jmcabo/avgtime> > > Example: > > > avgtime -r 10 -q ls -lR /etc > > ------------------------ > Total time (ms): 933.742 > Repetitions : 10 > Median time : 90.505 > Avg time : 93.3742 > Std dev. : 4.66808 > Minimum : 88.732 > Maximum : 101.225 > > The -q argument pipes stderr and stdout of the program > under test to /dev/null > > I put more info in the github page. > > > HAVE FUN!! > > --jm > > > Nice tool. I used it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rif9x/uniform_function_call_syntax_for_the_d/c46bjs7?context=2 It'd be neat if it could create comparison statistics between the execution of two different programs so you could compare the performance of changes or alternative approaches to the same problem as I was doing. Regards, Brad Anderson
