Subject: Re: bug#44674: 28.0.50; Adding current-cpu-time for performance tests

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:09:45 +0100

Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]> writes:

>> It does now, but we may want to change that.
>
> That would be a breaking change.

Yeah, we can't do that.  But a new benchmark-run command would be fine.

>> Does it really make
>> sense to "benchmark" something using elapsed time?
>
> Yes, the benchmarks I know all measure wall time. After all, that's
> what the user cares about.

The most used benchmark every (I'm guessing), which is the "time" shell
command, reports both.  Most people only care about the "real" (i.e.,
wall time), though, as you point out.

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