you need to use some statistics, and measure your mean, and std-deviation, in the least.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Dominic Tarr <dominic.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > the best and worst run may be the most important runs. the worst run > in particular. > you may have code that usually runs well, but might have bad worst > case performance. > > depending on how your code is used, the biggest improvement may come > from improving the worst-case performance. > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Alan Gutierrez <a...@prettyrobots.com> wrote: >> I'm starting to use `node-bench` to benchmark a packet parsing library, >> binary >> to JSON conversion and vice-versa. >> >> I'm wondering if, when you create your benchmarks, how do you account for >> garbage collection? Has anyone written some nice libraries or gists that >> would >> help get better results out of `node-bench` like throwing away the best and >> worst run? (Found `visualbench` and plan on using it.) >> >> -- >> Alan Gutierrez - http://twitter.com/bigeasy >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
