Hi Peter, On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:18:16 +0200 Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
> In some cases just getting the average runtime from a benchmark isn't > really informative. Unfortunately this is all that we get from > Benchmark.pm > > I have created a module giving a bit more information, currently > available on github: > > https://github.com/pmakholm/benchmark-statistics-perl > > Basically it just runs some code a couple of times and feeds the data to > Shlomi Fish's Statistics::Descriptive with the posibility of printing > some basic statistics. The API should be "not quite unlike" Benchmark.pm > but the output quite different. Well, first of all I'd like to note that while I am Statistics::Descriptive's maintainer, I did not originate it. The copyright still reads: <quote> Copyright (c) 1997,1998 Colin Kuskie. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (c) 1998 Andrea Spinelli. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (c) 1994,1995 Jason Kastner. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. </quote> > > Would this be of general interest (i.e. should I push it to CPAN?) > I'd say go for it. > I'm no statistics expert so I'm also a bit worried I'm sticking my hand > in a hornets nest requiring me to defending soem shoole of creating > benchmarks. 1. What is shoole? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=shoole cannot find anything. 2. I guess that uploading something partial may encourage people to improve on it further. > > I think it is to orthogonal from the data repported by Benchmark.pm to > be included in there? > > And finally, it's almost all too simple. But having something simple on > CPAN might provoke someone knowledge into making something more usefull? > Right. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html Ran Eilam To Shlomi Fish: so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
