Introduction to Benchmarking
Explore the fundamentals of benchmarking in Python to measure code execution speed and identify bottlenecks. Learn how to use the timeit module both from the command line and within scripts to accurately time code snippets. This lesson prepares you to analyze code performance effectively for future optimization efforts.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Overview of benchmarking
What does it mean to benchmark ones code? The main idea behind benchmarking or profiling is to figure out how fast our code executes and where the bottlenecks are. The main reason to do this sort of thing is for optimization. We will run into ...