Top "Benchmarking" questions

Benchmarking is the process of comparing two or more systems or processes under controlled circumstances in order to have a quantitative measure with which to compare or rank them.

POST request with wrk?

I started to try wrk. It's very simple to use and very hard on the server, but I don't know …

benchmarking wrk
Anyone here has benchmarked Intel C++ compiler and GCC?

I am not sure whether I should post this question here, because this seems to be a programming-oriented website. Anyway, …

c++ linux compiler-construction boost benchmarking
Fastest way to print a single line in a file

I have to fetch one specific line out of a big file (1500000 lines), multiple times in a loop over multiple …

bash sed benchmarking head cat
Why is matrix multiplication faster with numpy than with ctypes in Python?

I was trying to figure out the fastest way to do matrix multiplication and tried 3 different ways: Pure python implementation: …

python c benchmarking matrix-multiplication
How fast is Berkeley DB SQL compared to SQLite?

Oracle recently released a Berkeley DB back-end to SQLite. I happen to have a hundreds-of-megabytes SQLite database that could very …

sqlite benchmarking berkeley-db
HTTPS vs HTTP speed comparison

Update 2013-04-25: This is a popular question that is getting more attention than it probably should. In order to …

http ssl https benchmarking download-speed
Benchmarking programs in Rust

How is it possible to benchmark programs in Rust? For example, how would I get execution time of program in …

time benchmarking rust
Is MATLAB OOP slow or am I doing something wrong?

I'm experimenting with MATLAB OOP, as a start I mimicked my C++'s Logger classes and I'm putting all my …

matlab oop profiling benchmarking matlab-class
How do I get monotonic time durations in python?

I want to log how long something takes in real walltime. Currently I'm doing this: startTime = time.time() someSQLOrSomething() print "…

python linux benchmarking clock
Python Requests vs PyCurl Performance

How does the Requests library compare with the PyCurl performance wise? My understanding is that Requests is a python wrapper …

python performance benchmarking python-requests pycurl