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Re: No More Meaningless Benchmarks!

by perrin (Chancellor)
on Dec 08, 2006 at 21:43 UTC ( [id://588712]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to No More Meaningless Benchmarks!

I totally agree! Also, know when to measure wall-clock time instead of CPU time. I often see people measuring CPU time when trying to benchmark things that use a database. That's totally useless! I/O-heavy tasks can't be measure by CPU time in a useful way.

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Re^2: No More Meaningless Benchmarks!
by blazar (Canon) on Dec 09, 2006 at 10:50 UTC

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