Xavier Morel, 21.08.2012 19:56: > On 21 août 2012, at 19:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On 21/08/12 23:04, Victor Stinner wrote: >>> I don't like the timeit module for micro benchmarks, it is really >>> unstable (default settings are not written for micro benchmarks). >> [...] >>> I wrote my own benchmark tool, based on timeit, to have more stable >>> results on micro benchmarks: >>> https://bitbucket.org/haypo/misc/src/tip/python/benchmark.py >> >> I am surprised, because the whole purpose of timeit is to time micro >> code snippets. > > And when invoked from the command-line, it is already time-based: unless > -n is specified, python guesstimates the number of iterations to be a > power of 10 resulting in at least 0.2s per test (the repeat defaults to > 3 though) > > As a side-note, every time I use timeit programmatically, it annoys me > that this behavior is not available and has to be implemented manually.
+100, sounds like someone should contribute a patch for this. Stefan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
