Marketing

Engineering

Operating system

Benchmarking

Economics

Computer science

Mathematical optimization

Business

Software quality

Software

Software metric

Mathematics

Management

Operations management

Programming language

Performance metric

Metric (unit)

Software development

Mathematical Programming

We propose performance profiles — distribution functions for a performance metric — as a tool for benchmarking and comparing optimization software. We show that performance profiles combine the best features of other tools for performance evaluation.

Benchmarking optimization software with performance profiles