Re: Alternative to Timing[10000!] benchmark
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Alternative to Timing[10000!] benchmark
- From: "Joseph G. McWilliams" <mcwilljg at euler.sfasu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 09:47:42 -0500 (CDT)
On Fri, 1 Jul 1994, Paul E Howland wrote: > Instead of the rather dodgy "Timing[10000!]" benchmark for performance, > the following seems a better way of measuring the elapsed time taken to do a > calculation (as Timing[] supposedly measures CPU time): > In[1]:= start=AbsoluteTime[]; Print[Short[10000!]]; AbsoluteTime[]-start > > For the Windows 387 Version 2.2 running on a Compaq Despro 433i PC, I get the > result > Out[1]= 137 > > And on the DEC Alpha OSF/1 Version 2.2 version, running on a DEC 3000 Model > 400, I get > Out[1]= 13.59984 > On a NeXT '040 non-turbo using MMA ver 2.2: In[9]:= start=AbsoluteTime[]; Print[Short[10000!]]; AbsoluteTime[]-start Out[9]= 164.718613