What is Probe effect?

The phenomenon in which adding a measurement mechanism changes the behavior of the program being measured.

Japanese name: プローブ効果

Field: Performance Analysis

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Related terms

Benchmark CPU time Cycles per instruction (CPI) Flame graph Geometric mean Gustafson's law Harmonic mean Little's law Microbenchmark Parallel efficiency

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