Message 277259 - Python tracker

Message277259

Author	pitrou
Recipients	brett.cannon, fijall, lemburg, ned.deily, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2016-09-23.09:11:03
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In-reply-to	<1474618900.19.0.83615071376.issue28240@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Le 23/09/2016 à 10:21, STINNER Victor a écrit : > > Quick rationale: the purpose of displaying the average rather than > the minimum in timeit is to make timeit more reliable. My goal is that running timeit 5 times would give exactly the same result. Why would it? System noise can vary from run to run.

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Le 23/09/2016 à 10:21, STINNER Victor a écrit :
> 
> Quick rationale: the purpose of displaying the average rather than
> the
minimum in timeit is to make timeit more *reliable*. My goal is that
running timeit 5 times would give exactly the same result.

Why would it? System noise can vary from run to run.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-09-23 09:11:03	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, tim.peters, brett.cannon, vstinner, ned.deily, steven.daprano, fijall, serhiy.storchaka
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2016-09-23 09:11:03	pitrou	create