Re^6: Question on Regex

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
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So i try:

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

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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Re^7: Question on Regex by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Nov 20, 2012 at 02:48 UTC
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%` [download] 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	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: Question on Regex by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Nov 20, 2012 at 07:52 UTC
Thank you. I thought something was wrong with my beer last night ;-) Regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]


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