If you actually want to benchmark real world code, use tools like Xdebug and XHProf. Xdebug is great for when you’re working in dev/staging, and XHProf is a great tool for production and it’s safe to run it there (as long as you read the instructions). The results of any one single page load aren’t … Read more
CLOCKS_PER_SEC is a constant which is declared in <time.h>. To get the CPU time used by a task within a C application, use: clock_t begin = clock(); /* here, do your time-consuming job */ clock_t end = clock(); double time_spent = (double)(end – begin) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC; Note that this returns the time as a floating … Read more
It means exactly what it says on the tin can – it’s measuring the performance of something “small”, like a system call to the kernel of an operating system. The danger is that people may use whatever results they obtain from microbenchmarking to dictate optimizations. And as we all know: We should forget about small … Read more
I’ve been working with OO MATLAB for a while, and ended up looking at similar performance issues. The short answer is: yes, MATLAB’s OOP is kind of slow. There is substantial method call overhead, higher than mainstream OO languages, and there’s not much you can do about it. Part of the reason may be that … Read more
Inside a function, the bytecode is: 2 0 SETUP_LOOP 20 (to 23) 3 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (xrange) 6 LOAD_CONST 3 (100000000) 9 CALL_FUNCTION 1 12 GET_ITER >> 13 FOR_ITER 6 (to 22) 16 STORE_FAST 0 (i) 3 19 JUMP_ABSOLUTE 13 >> 22 POP_BLOCK >> 23 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) 26 RETURN_VALUE At the top level, the bytecode … Read more
Generally: For repeated short things, you can just time the whole repeat loop. (But microbenchmarking is hard; easy to distort results unless you understand the implications of doing that; for very short things, throughput and latency are different, so measure both separately by making one iteration use the result of the previous or not. Also … Read more
Tips about writing micro benchmarks from the creators of Java HotSpot: Rule 0: Read a reputable paper on JVMs and micro-benchmarking. A good one is Brian Goetz, 2005. Do not expect too much from micro-benchmarks; they measure only a limited range of JVM performance characteristics. Rule 1: Always include a warmup phase which runs your … Read more
Real, User and Sys process time statistics One of these things is not like the other. Real refers to actual elapsed time; User and Sys refer to CPU time used only by the process. Real is wall clock time – time from start to finish of the call. This is all elapsed time including time … Read more
tl;dr: Because of different default settings in C++ requiring more system calls. By default, cin is synchronized with stdio, which causes it to avoid any input buffering. If you add this to the top of your main, you should see much better performance: std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); Normally, when an input stream is buffered, instead of reading one … Read more