Yes, thanks much, this makes a lot of sense.
Well, by "better" what I had in mind was something that is reliably
close to the time needed for printing. Without actually doing the
printing. But I realize this is too much to ask for, and I'll be fine
with /dev/null. Thanks for bringing up the textCo
On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to benchmark code that occasionally prints on the screen
> and I want to
> suppress the printing. Is there an idiom for this?
>
> If I do
>
> sink(tempfile)
> microbenchmark(...)
> sink()
>
> then I'll be also measur
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to benchmark code that occasionally prints on the screen
> and I want to
> suppress the printing. Is there an idiom for this?
>
> If I do
>
> sink(tempfile)
> microbenchmark(...)
> sink()
>
> then I'll be also measurin
Dear all,
I am trying to benchmark code that occasionally prints on the screen
and I want to
suppress the printing. Is there an idiom for this?
If I do
sink(tempfile)
microbenchmark(...)
sink()
then I'll be also measuring the costs of writing to tempfile. I could
also sink to /dev/null, which i
