To Interpret Duration Measurement Reports - HP 64751 User Manual

Chapter 8: Making Software Performance Measurements
Duration Performance Measurements

To interpret duration measurement reports

• View the performance measurement report.
Duration measurements provide a best-case/worst-case characterization of code
execution time. These measurements record execution times that fall within a set of
specified time ranges. The information you will see in duration measurement
reports is described below.
Number of Intervals Number of "from address" and "to address" pairs (after
prefetch correction).
Maximum Time The greatest amount of time between the "from address" to the
"to address".
Minimum Time The shortest amount of time between the "from address" to the
"to address".
Average Time Average time between the "from address" and the "to address".
The following equation is used to calculate the average time:
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