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:''Note that the module is not ready for productionwide spread use, it is still under (somewhat) active development!''

The purpose of this module is to provide a simple method to do timing analysis for [[w:en:performance tuning|performance tuning]] of Lua-functions, that is [[w:en:Profiling (computer programming)|profiling of functions]]. Usually measuring the duration of function calls is part of a larger effort to identify bottlenecks and problematic code. This is not a full-blown profiler, as it is not possible to do line-tracing (call-graph profiling) in the current set up. Its only purpose is to measure execution time (flat profiling), and to do this interactively from the debug console (ie. on a single function).

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* [[w:en:Standard deviation]] ''The code use variance and standard deviation''

* [[w:en:Sum of normally distributed random variables]] ''The code makes an assumption that delays are independent random occurences, which is not quite right''

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