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Advanced Benchmark Analysis II: Probing strengths and weaknesses

Sam Graham — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:39:00 GMT

In my previous blog entry, "Advanced Benchmark Analysis I: Yet more white-space trimming", I left you with the thought that our benchmarks changed with changing input.

This article shows you how to analyze those changes and how to draw conclusions from them.

Advanced Benchmark Analysis I: Yet more white-space trimming

Sam Graham — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:43:00 GMT

Seems my previous blog, "Some simple "white-space trim" benchmarks" caught people's attention, and I've received some interesting suggestions and observations worthy of a followup article, this also gives me the chance to delve into explaining more advanced benchmark analysis.

So, deep breath, here goes.

Some simple "white-space trim" benchmarks

Sam Graham — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:38:00 GMT

Laufeyjarson asked on Monday, about stripping whitespace from both ends of a string. The comments contains lots of suggestions, but no hard figures, so I thought I'd reproduce them here along with the code used to generate the benchmarks - it provides a simple example of how to write a quick and reliable benchmark.