Investigation: downsides of being generic and correct

[1100110]

On 05/16/2013 01:46 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:03:36 -0500
> 1100110 <0b1100110 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> May I also recommend my tool "avgtime" to make simple benchmarks,
>>> instead of "time" (you can see an ascii histogram as the output):
>>>
>>>      https://github.com/jmcabo/avgtime/tree/
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> $ avgtime -r10 -h -q  ls
>>> ------------------------
>>> Total time (ms): 27.413
>>> Repetitions    : 10
>>> Sample mode    : 2.6 (4 ocurrences)
>>> Median time    : 2.6695
>>> Avg time       : 2.7413
>>> Std dev.       : 0.260515
>>> Minimum        : 2.557
>>> Maximum        : 3.505
>>> 95% conf.int.  : [2.2307, 3.2519]  e = 0.510599
>>> 99% conf.int.  : [2.07026, 3.41234]  e = 0.671041
>>> EstimatedAvg95%: [2.57983, 2.90277]  e = 0.161466
>>> EstimatedAvg99%: [2.5291, 2.9535]  e = 0.212202
>>> Histogram      :
>>>     msecs: count  normalized bar
>>>       2.5:     2  ####################
>>>       2.6:     4  ########################################
>>>       2.7:     3  ##############################
>>>       3.5:     1  ##########
>>>
>>> --jm
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for self-promotion, I miss that tool.
>>
>>
> 
> Indeed. I had totally forgotten about that, and yet it *should* be the
> first thing I think of when I think "timing a program". IMO, that
> should be a standard tool in any unixy installation.
> 
> 

+1

That's worth creating a package for.

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