From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T22:59:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How to understand the Benchmark result

Every once in a while somebody posts a question about benchmarking.
I've dusted off a primer on Benchmarking I wrote for IBM a couple of
years ago and posted it on my blog:

http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2008/12/benchmarking-makes-it-better.html

Have a look.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Deepak Gole <deepak.gole8@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I had ran 2 methods against Benchmark and  got following output. But didn't
> understand which method is faster and what is "elapsed real time".
>
> *1st Method benchmark result
> *user CPU time   system CPU time
>  0.235000           0.015000                0.250000 (  6.797000)
>
>
> *2nd Method benchmark result
>  *user CPU time   system CPU time
>  18.906000          0.250000              19.156000 ( 19.250000)*
> *
>



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-pate
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