2.4 Performant

Okay, “performant” isn’t a real English word. It is, however, a very concise neologism that is quite often used to describe what we want ns-3 to be: powerful and fast enough to get the job done.

This is really about the broad subject of software performance testing. One of the key things that is done is to compare two systems to find which performs better (cf benchmarks). This is used to demonstrate that, for example, ns-3 can perform a basic kind of simulation at least as fast as a competing tool, or can be used to identify parts of the system that perform badly.

In the ns-3 test framework, we provide support for timing various kinds of tests.

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