Thanks a lot, makes sense now. Jens: Good tip about garbage-collecting before doing the benchmark!
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensa...@soegaard.net> wrote: > Tip: To get reliable results, garbage collect before the timing. > > /Jens Axel > > > 2012/2/5 Sergi Mansilla <sergi.mansi...@gmail.com> >> >> Hi, >> >> For benchmarking purposes, I am running a function hundreds of times >> and want to make an average of the time it spends running. For that >> purpose I am now using `current-inexact-milliseconds` before and after >> he loop, and then subtracting both times and dividing by the >> iterations performed. >> >> I'd like to do that with the `time` function, but I can't figure out >> how to extract the values it prints, since it doesn't seem to be a >> return value. I am clearly missing something obvious. How can I use >> values returned by `time`? >> >> Thanks a lot, >> >> Sergi >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > > > > -- > -- > Jens Axel Søgaard > > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
