[Vm-dev] StackVM with latest sources tinyBenchmarks

[Eliot Miranda]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> The most annoying piece is Time machine and its disk access, I
>>> sometimes forget to suspend it, but it was off during the
>>> tinyBenchmark.
>>
>> One simple approach is to run the benchmark three times and to discard
>> the best and the worst results.
>
> that is as good as taking the first one... if you want decent results
> measure >30 times and do the only scientific correct thing: avg + std deviation?

If the benchmark takes very little time to run and you're trying to
avoid background effects then your approach won't necessarily work
either.

>
> Too much work? use http://www.squeaksource.com/SMark.html



-- 
best,
Eliot