[Python-Dev] 3.3 str timings

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 21/08/12 23:04, Victor Stinner wrote:

> I don't like the timeit module for micro benchmarks, it is really
> unstable (default settings are not written for micro benchmarks).
[...]
> I wrote my own benchmark tool, based on timeit, to have more stable
> results on micro benchmarks:
> https://bitbucket.org/haypo/misc/src/tip/python/benchmark.py

I am surprised, because the whole purpose of timeit is to time micro
code snippets.

If it is as unstable as you suggest, and if you have an alternative
which is more stable and accurate, I would love to see it in the
standard library.



-- 
Steven