On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running it on Windows XP Media Center Edition, through the standard > notebook server started up from the command line in VMware Player.
Benchmarking and timing calculations running in a virtual machine is subject to extra variation. E.g., there are two operating systems running, they could be doing things, etc. > There is > nothing else running on my computer besides having a couple additional tabs > open in Firefox, which is the web browser I am using. How do you know nothing else is *really* running? Operating systems these days are pretty complicated and sneaky at running code unbeknownst to the user, and Windows is no exception. -- William > > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, William Stein wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:01 PM, <> wrote: > > > > > Professor Stein, > > > > > > I have run the timeit command on a version of my program for homework > > > problem #5 multiple times, with the same input, and the average > calculation > > > time has been declared to be anywhere from 49 microseconds to 110 > > > microseconds. Is there a reasonable explanation for this wide range of > > > times? > > > > > > > What exactly are you running Sage on? Windows? Linux? OS X? How? > > What else is running on your computer? > > > > -- william > > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
