From: hal9000@...
Date: 2000-07-24T16:44:19+00:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04193] RE: How-to time short intervals?


> Ok, so we can't hope for anything better than secs/millisecs without
going
> platform-specific then. Point taken on relying on anything less than
secs.
> However I'm not relying on them for any critical func; I'm writing
some
> performance tests.

Robert,

Maybe there's some reason you don't want to do this, but my suggestion
would be to put the part you're timing in a huge loop. (Of course,
that introduces a slight inaccuracy because of the loop processing
overhead.)

For example, run your code 100,000 times and divide the runtime by
100,000.

Just a thought.

Hal

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