On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:02 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm seeking a preferably citeable reference to the amount of error in the > returned result from a Time() command. I want to be > able to quote the level of error in timing the execution speed of my project.
A reference that probably doesn't apply to you wouldn't really convince me; I would think simply showing a sane standard deviation over a reasonable number of runs would be better. You could find a lot of papers that wouldn't even give this. [1] is an example of a paper written with several timing-based results with what I think is quite readable stats (IMHO:) -i [1] ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/doc/papers/UNSW/0307.pdf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
