GNU bug report logs - #44674
28.0.50; Adding current-cpu-time for performance tests

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 01:08:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #92 received at 44674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 44674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#44674: 28.0.50; Adding current-cpu-time for performance tests
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:17:02 +0200

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:32:35 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, 
> 	44674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >           The clock() function shall return the implementation's best
> >           approximation to the processor time used by the process
> >           since the beginning of an implementation-defined era
> >           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >           related only to the process invocation.
> >
> > How do you write portable Lisp code that returns consistent results
> > based on such shaky foundations?
> 
> For non-walltime clocks, only the difference between two measurements
> is meaningful.

Which is a limitation, when compared to APIs that always measure since
the program/thread start.  For example, with 'clock' you cannot
measure how long the startup takes.
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