On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:32:42AM +0000, Xavier Calbet wrote: [SNIP] > I have run these benchmarks without running anything else on the computer. > I have done this several times and have obtained consistent times. > Is there a better way to measure the time without resorting to date? > > The results are the following: > > gcc 201 sec > g77 201 sec > PDL 651 sec > IDL 694 sec > MatLab 2738 sec > Octave 2031 sec
I'll have a look at the code in a bit, but just wanted to say, I'd use `time` instead of `date`. As this gives you the amount of time spent in userland, system overhead and execution. I prefer the break down really. (Usage would be: `time ./mandel.pl` ) Also do you care about startup times? As in Matlab takes a good half minute or there abouts to start up on my machine... Would it make more sense to do the timing within the languages? Then you could go further and iterate the function. I don't know, how much detail do you really want to get into? Regards Timothy _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
