2017-03-14 18:13 GMT+01:00 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > Victor is trying to eliminate the effects of system noise by using the > median, but if that's the primary goal, using the minimum is arguably > better, since the system noise is always a positive contributor (i.e. > it can only increase the runtimes). > > The median is arguably a bastardized solution, which satisfies neither > the requirement of eliminating system noise, nor the requirement of > faithfully representing performance variations due to non-deterministic > effects in the Python runtime and/or benchmark itself.
The Python timeit module uses the minimum an in my experience, it's far not reproductible at all. Mean or median provides a more reproductible value. Victor _______________________________________________ Speed mailing list Speed@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/speed
