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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: point-at-final-line
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:51:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831si8imea.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86372obou1.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:40:38 +0100)

> From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:40:38 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > (But I'm sure that if you run each function
> > many times in a loop, you will see some
> > differences in timing. Right now, I think the
> > times are below your system clock resolution,
> > so you are measuring quantization noise.)
> 
> Well, you know what they say, what you can't
> measure, you cannot control.

I'm saying that you _can_ measure this: just run each function many
times in a loop, and then divide the time by the number of iterations.
This is a standard method of timing short code fragments.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-29 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-27  1:14 point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-27  1:36 ` point-at-final-line Ben Bacarisse
2018-01-27  1:52   ` point-at-final-line John Mastro
2018-01-27  2:50   ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8058.1517017989.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-27  2:56     ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-27  3:02     ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-27  6:11       ` point-at-final-line Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]       ` <mailman.8063.1517033499.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-27  7:05         ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-28 16:06       ` point-at-final-line Stefan Monnier
     [not found]       ` <mailman.8116.1517155644.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-28 18:59         ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-28 20:36           ` point-at-final-line Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.8132.1517171769.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-29 15:03             ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-29 16:04               ` point-at-final-line Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.8177.1517241890.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-29 16:40                 ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-29 17:51                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.8185.1517248285.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-30  2:18                     ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg
2018-01-30  3:32                       ` point-at-final-line Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-30  3:50       ` point-at-final-line Stefan Monnier
     [not found]       ` <mailman.8212.1517284260.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-30 14:52         ` point-at-final-line Emanuel Berg

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