On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Victor Stinner
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2016-02-12 16:42 GMT+01:00 Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]>:
>> timeit does two really terrible things - uses min(time) and disables
>> the garbage collector, which makes it completely unreliable.
>
> Can you please elaborate why using min(times) is a bad idea?
>
> I'm also using min() in my tool, I expect that it helps to ignore the
> sporadic peeks when the system is unstable.
>
> Victor
Yes, it also helps to ignore systematic peaks that will happen
randomly (due to cache alignment, memory ordering, dicts etc.). Some
operations are really random that you should not ignore. E.g. if you
have:
l.append('a') in a loop, you gonna ignore all the places that resize loop.
I'll look for a reference
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