in reply to Re: Benchmark.pm: Does subroutine testing order bias results?
in thread Benchmark.pm: Does subroutine testing order bias results?

I don't know that modifing Benchmark's cmpthese/timethese current behavior is neccessary, but a new method that supports interleaving might be usefull...

package Benchmark; use List::Util qw(shuffle); sub interleavethese{ # based on timethese, but it merges the results from several small # iterations with the order shuffled each time. my($n, $iters, $alt, $style) = @_; die "usage: interleavethese(count, iters, { 'Name1'=>'code1', ... +}\n" unless ref $alt eq 'HASH'; my @names = sort keys %$alt; $style = "" unless defined $style; print "Benchmark: " unless $style eq 'none'; if ( $n > 0 ) { croak "non-integer loopcount $n, stopped" if int($n)<$n; print "timing $iters sets of $n iterations of" unless $style e +q 'none'; } else { print "running" unless $style eq 'none'; } print " ", join(', ',@names) unless $style eq 'none'; unless ( $n > 0 ) { my $for = n_to_for( $n ); print ", each for $iters iterations of at least $for CPU secon +ds" unless $style eq 'none'; } print "...\n" unless $style eq 'none'; my %results; for (my $i = 0; $i < $iters; $i++) { my @tasks = shuffle @names; foreach my $name (@tasks) { my $t = timethis ($n, $alt -> {$name}, $name, $style); $results{$name} = exists $results{$name} ? timesum($results{$name}, $t) : $t; } } return \%results; } package main; #use it like this... use Benchmark qw[ cmpthese interleasethese ]; cmpthese(interleavethese(5, 3, { Atest => \&test, Btest => \&test, Ctest => \&test, })); cmpthese(interleavethese(-5, 3, { Atest => \&test, Btest => \&test, Ctest => \&test, }));