Dear Masters,
I have the following benchmark snippets. 
my $r = timethese(
    -5,
    {   list => sub { code1($fstr); },
        enum => sub { code2($fstr); }
    }
);

cmpthese $r;

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Now I have difficulty in interpreting the result below: 
Benchmark: running enum, list for at least 5 CPU seconds...
      enum:  5 wallclock secs ( 3.55 usr +  1.74 sys =  5.29 CPU) @ 50
+1.89/s (n=2655)
      list:  5 wallclock secs ( 5.32 usr +  0.00 sys =  5.32 CPU) @ 16
+68.23/s (n=8875)

       Rate enum list
enum  502/s   -- -70%
list 1668/s 232%   --

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My questions are:
  1. from 'cmpthese' results it is clear that "list" is more than twice faster than "enum". But looking at the wallclock value from 'timethese' it shows that both of them are close to each other in their total time, even more the usertime for "enum" is shorter than "list". Now which is the correct benchmark should we use 'cmpthese' or 'timethese'? And which one is actually faster "enum" or "list"?
  2. What does "n" value refer to in 'timethese' output?


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In reply to Interpreting Benchmark's "cmpthese" and "timethese" by neversaint

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