avgtime - Small D util for your everyday benchmarking needs

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/23/12 5:42 PM, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> In the limit, taking the minimum over infinitely many
>> measurements of X would yield T.
>
> True, if the thoretical variance of the distribution of T is close to
> zero. But horrible wrong, if T depends on an algorithm that is fast
> only under amortized analysis, because the worst case scenario will be
> hidden.

Wait, doesn't a benchmark always measure an algorithm with the same 
input? For collecting a chart of various inputs, there should be various 
benchmarks.

Andrei