On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > One simple way to do that: Run the exact same test many times (say, > 10 000 or so) on the same machine, and then compute the average of all > the durations. > > Do the same for each different program, and then you may have more > meaningfully comparable measurements.
And also find the minimum and maximum durations, too. Averages don't always tell the whole story. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list