[Haskell-cafe] ANN: benchpress 0.2.1

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 08:45:01 EDT 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I might have to run the action twice to avoid extra measuring overhead.
>
> I don't think it matters because the extra measuring overhead is
> constant over the measuring iterations.

I want the reported times to differ as little as possible from the
actual running times. Any constant overhead skews the results upwards.
It might matter is the action being benchmark has a very low run time.
Maybe I misunderstood what you said.

-- Johan


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