[erlang-questions] how much time required to pass messages.

[Carsten Schultz]

Vikrant schrieb:
> 
> 26> tokenring:tokenring(10000,1).
> Time required to pass message 10000 times=3.00000 (4.40000) microsecond
> .ok
> 27> tokenring:tokenring(20000,1).
> Time required to pass message 20000 times=3.00000 (4.65000) microsecond
> .ok
> 28> tokenring:tokenring(30000,1).
> Time required to pass message 30000 times=3.33333 (4.63333) microsecond
> .ok
> 
> (time in bracket is system time and time outside bracket is user time in
> microseconds.)
> 
> This is surprising to me! I expected that time required to pass token
> along N processes should be proportional to N!

My guess here is that the resultion of the timer is 1/3.  So your
results are 9, 9, 10.  Considering that these are rounded and that your
function will have a constant term, these numbers are just to small to
allow you to deduce much about your runtime function.  Change the second
parameter into, say, 1000000 in all cases and see what happens.

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