microbenchmarking

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ benchmarking

Noun

microbenchmarking (uncountable)

1. (computing) Measuring the performance of a small piece of code that executes in microseconds or nanoseconds.
   • 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^[1]:

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