[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp internal benchmark tool

[Romain Francois]

Le 08/12/12 16:06, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
>
> On 8 December 2012 at 15:44, Romain Francois wrote:
> | I've been using the microbenchmark package extensively and took
> | inspiration from it to implement a Timer class in Rcpp to measure
> | performance at a lower level.
>
> That's probably quite useful. I had an older/simpler class here from
> something I had done years ago at work covering the Linux + Windows
> cases. Olaf has more basis covered so this good.
>
> It is on the border of creeping featuritis though ...
>
> | - include the Timer.h header, which is **not** automatically added in
> | Rcpp.h:
>
> ... but that is a fair defence against bloat.
>
> Dirk

precisely. for new features that are somewhat orthogonal to the api, we 
should separate. Rcpp.h is already quite heavy as it is now.


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