2 Answered Questions for the topic benchmarking

06/14/19

Why does Python code run faster in a function?

def main():  for i in xrange(10**8):   pass main()This piece of code in Python runs in (Note: The timing is done with the time function in BASH in Linux.) real 0m1.841s ... more
Benchmarking Unix Time

04/28/19

What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time(1)?

$ time foo real 0m0.003s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s $ What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time? Which one is meaningful when benchmarking my app?

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