On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 01:24 , Bruce Van Allen wrote: [..] > Another approach might be to increase the number of repetitions performed > by Benchmark. A factor of 10^3 raises milliseconds to seconds, etc. > Sub-seconds would be important in high-volume applications, so more > repetitions might be more realistic anyway...
first off thanks to folks. as a Generic Rule of thumb I run them on the order of about a million iterations just to make me feel all warm and fuzzy about generic reasonable approximations for the RUN/sec value to get even close to 'statistically interesting'. My premise - some of it up at: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/BenchMarks/ was to provide the 'benchmark' test cases for various standard ways of doing 'how do I do foo' - and let the 'numbers speak for themselves'..... and it just struck me that I may be 'asking the wrong question'. since clearly Benchmark.pm has not really been hacked on since '99 - and in the five years from Tim Bunce's original work - no one has seen a clear need to run it with HiRes.... The problem - as I see it now - is how to differenciate 'trivia' contest bench marking from 'relevant' benchmarking.... ciao drieux ---
