microbenchmarking

noun

Measuring the performance of a small piece of code that executes in microseconds or nanoseconds.

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Meanings

nounmicrobenchmarking (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputingMeasuring the performance of a small piece of code that executes in microseconds or nanoseconds.

    The evaluation work is performed at two levels: the microbenchmarking level and the real-world application level.

    2016, Zhaokui Li, Jianbin Fang, Tao Tang, Xuhao Chen, Cheng Chen, Canqun Yang, “Evaluating the Performance Impact of Multiple Streams on the MIC-based Heterogeneous Platform”, in arXiv

Origin

From micro- + benchmarking.

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