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Thats's nice! It's not a good habit to be too greedy. Regards, Karl

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Re^6: Question on Regex
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 19, 2012 at 20:24 UTC

    Hello, one important thing i learned in the short time i'm on PM is: there is no reason to be ashamed to ask something that i don't know or understand. So i must confess that i have a problem to interpret the output of Benchmark in the right way. I didn't use this module very much yet.

    I know when i use cmpthese, the results are sorted from slow to fast. When i say $count = -10, my code runs for 10 wall clock seconds.

    Then, in the rate column i can see the amount of iterations per second for each of the subs that i benchmarked - in our (first) case:

    karlgoethebier 105189/s athanasius 627362/s

    So i try:

    Karls-Mac-mini:Desktop karl $ perl -e 'printf ("%.0f\n", 627362/105189 +);' 6

    You wrote:...Which shows that sub athanasius is up to 5 times faster than sub karlgoethebier. Perhaps i have a mental block at the moment or i miss something really essential, sorry.

    Thanks for advice and regards, Karl

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      You’re quite right, I should have said “up to 6 times faster”. I was looking at the figure of 496%, and thinking “that’s almost 5,” but that figure is actually the increase in rate expressed as a percentage of the original. That is,

      (627362 - 105189) / 105189 = 4.9641 = 496%

      The problem is, that concept — the increase in rate expressed as a percentage of the original — doesn’t mean much to me. Which may be why I have such a hard time remembering it!

      i have a problem to interpret the output of Benchmark in the right way.

      Me too! :-)

      I know when i use cmpthese, the results are sorted from slow to fast.

      Exactly, that’s the main point to keep in mind.

      Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum

        Thank you. I thought something was wrong with my beer last night ;-) Regards, Karl

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