<br>The maintainer is very responsive so I'm sure he'd be happy to accept a patch or even just a feature request. Ratio of medians sounds reasonable to me, although you do have enough data to actually do some statistical, tests, rankings etc. <div>
<br></div><div>Hadley</div><div><br>On Friday, October 11, 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 11 October 2013 at 09:24, Hadley Wickham wrote:<br>
| FYI, I recommend using microbenchmark which uses a much higher<br>
| precision timer so you can see the variability as well as the mean<br>
| times.<br>
<br>
Someone really needs to mod it to give the 'single figure of merit'<br>
comparison which makes rbenchmark so handy. Maybe ratio of medians ?<br>
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Dirk<br>
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