On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:28:32 +0200 Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > > taking the minimum is a terrible idea anyway, none of the statistical > discussion makes sense if you do that
The minimum is a reasonable metric for quick throwaway benchmarks as timeit is designed for, as it has a better hope of alleviating the impact of system load (as such throwaway benchmarks are often run on the developer's workstation). For a persistent benchmarks suite, where we can afford longer benchmark runtimes and are able to keep system noise to a minimum, we might prefer another metric. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Speed mailing list Speed@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/speed
