8-Queens Benchmark

[Egan Ford]

(07-10-2016 03:21 AM)Accutron Wrote:  Timing it with a stopwatch, I got 12.07, 12.12, 12.08, but of course there was a small ~0.1 second delay between when the program finished and when I mashed the stop button on the watch, so the completion time is pretty much exactly 12 seconds.

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If you have a smart phone handy I'd suggest video recording it, then reviewing the start and end frame-by-frame. Assuming 30 frame/sec, you could get sub-second accuracy.