The is true, and that is also what I wanted to do. When using @elapsed, 
should I then be worried about garbage collection affecting my times?

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 5:57:57 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> I generally find that using a comprehension around @elapsed is pretty 
> terse and clear – it also makes it easy to compose with reducers like min, 
> max, median, and quantile, which is convenient for analysis.
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Patrick Kofod Mogensen <
> patrick....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> It is indeed, thank you. I was also told that @timeit might do something 
>> along the lines of what I am doing.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 5:07:24 PM UTC+1, Andreas Noack wrote:
>>>
>>> @elapsed is what you are looking for
>>>
>>> 2015-03-11 7:43 GMT-04:00 Patrick Kofod Mogensen <patrick....@gmail.com>
>>> :
>>>
>>>> I am testing the run times of two different algorithms, solving the 
>>>> same problem. I know there is the @time macro, but I cannot seem to wrap 
>>>> my 
>>>> head around how I should save the printed times. Any clever way of doing 
>>>> this? I thought I would be able to
>>>>
>>>> [@time algo(input) for i = 1:500],
>>>>
>>>> but this saves the return form algo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>

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