Re: Benchmark puzzle

2010-11-11 Thread Uri Guttman
> "MM" == Mike McClain writes: MM> Thinking the number of inerations of the benchmark loop might be MM> low enough to affect the results I doubled it and reran the above MM> command. a good trick when using benchmark is to support a command line arg to set the iteration count with a de

Benchmark puzzle

2010-11-11 Thread Mike McClain
Hello List, A posting about splitting a string into n numbered groups of characters led me to write a short script exploring the ways to do so. Later I got to wondering how the various approaches compared so added benchmarking code. Last week I ran the script, made a minor cosmetic change and r