From: Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com>
To: Caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Benchmarking different dispatch types
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:03:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B00AC7.4000804@rftp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aee06c9e0701181433u4c7d7009k60ef09292e41fe21@mail.gmail.com>
Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> well, running only 40,000 iterations is way too low because timing
>> errors are going to get in the way of an accurate answer.
>
> I forgot to mention that I also tried 400,000 and 4,000,000. 400K
> produced similar results to 40K, while 4M produced some strange
> results that didn't make sense.
> ...
> These results are clearly garbage, since the rate of function calls is
> negative. Or perhaps there's some time-travel going on...
Or maybe there is a slight issue with overflow of whatever numeric
representation is being used (I haven't examined the benchmarking
package in any detail)?
Robert Roessler
roessler@rftp.com
http://www.rftp.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-19 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-18 1:12 Nathaniel Gray
2007-01-18 2:17 ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2007-01-18 3:03 ` Jonathan Roewen
2007-01-18 23:57 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-01-18 15:52 ` Remi Vanicat
2007-01-18 22:33 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-01-19 0:03 ` Robert Roessler [this message]
2007-01-31 17:03 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-18 16:56 ` William D. Neumann
2007-01-19 0:50 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-19 8:30 ` Nathaniel Gray
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