I guess I disagree. The value of benchmarking is greatly reduced if each iteration of the code we are benchmarking starts off with even a slightly different state than the previous iteration. Even more dangerous is that some people probably aren't even AWARE that this is happening, and thus don't fully understand what's going on behind those benchmark numbers. (I also ran into the case where my benchmarking died because I ran out of memory ... I was running 1,000,000 iterations ... )

As far as perhaps NOT wanting my variables cleared .. in what realistic benchmarking case would you think that I would want that behavior? I can't think of one myself ... but maybe you have run across that need before?

To make things even less predictable, let's say I have two functions A and B that I am using in timethese, and that I use @_ in both like I described (pushing and popping). timethese clears @_ for the FIRST time I run A, but no subsequent times, and it clears @_ for the FIRST run of B, but no subsequent times.

I don't think this is desired behavior ... at least not in my case.

In reply to RE: Re: timethese by husker
in thread timethese, and pushing array values by husker

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