From 9d3f0498ddfd2cb561655ef4784dbcc3618d2dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NimaSarajpoor <nimasarajpoor@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:18:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] allow more sampling for shorter arrays

---
 timing.py | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/timing.py b/timing.py
index 701e1c5..8740aeb 100755
--- a/timing.py
+++ b/timing.py
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@
     parser.add_argument("-noheader", default=False, action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument(
         "-timeout",
-        default=5.0,
+        default=1.0,
         type=float,
-        help="Number of seconds to wait for a run before timing out",
+        help="Maximum total time (in seconds) allowed for iterations per (len(Q), len(T))",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "-pequal", default=False, action="store_true", help="Compute `len(Q) == len(T)`"
     )
     parser.add_argument(
-        "-niter", default=4, type=int, help="Number of iterations to run"
+        "-itermax", default=1000, type=int, help="Maximum number of iterations to run"
     )
     parser.add_argument("-pmin", default=6, type=int, help="Minimum 2^p to use")
     parser.add_argument("-pmax", default=27, type=int, help="Maximum 2^p to use")
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
         skip_p_equal = 0
     else:
         skip_p_equal = 1
-    n_iter = args.niter
+    iter_max = args.itermax
     p_min = args.pmin
     p_max = args.pmax
     p_diff = args.pdiff
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@
                 mod.setup(Q, T)
 
                 elapsed_times = []
-                for _ in range(n_iter):
+                iter_count = 0
+                while sum(elapsed_times) < timeout and iter_count < iter_max:
+                    iter_count += 1
+
                     start = time.time()
                     mod.sliding_dot_product(Q, T)
                     diff = time.time() - start

From 59ecc86d1c20f2c3a65bac9165852261fff230c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NimaSarajpoor <nimasarajpoor@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:00:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix flake8 format

---
 timing.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/timing.py b/timing.py
index 8740aeb..b5270e2 100755
--- a/timing.py
+++ b/timing.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
         "-timeout",
         default=1.0,
         type=float,
-        help="Maximum total time (in seconds) allowed for iterations per (len(Q), len(T))",
+        help="Maximum total time (in seconds) allowed for iterations to run",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "-pequal", default=False, action="store_true", help="Compute `len(Q) == len(T)`"