What is a Python bias value?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth anson:
>   What is a bias value in Python? In my lecture notes, it talks about
> something linking with Calibration. But I don't understand what's
> going on.

The only place I can remember seeing reference to such a thing is
in the profiler, calibration of which involves computing its
overhead and treating that as a bias:

    <http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/profile-calibration.html>

These terms and concepts, though, are quite general, so it's hard
to guess what your lecture notes are referring to.

-- 
Steven Taschuk                             staschuk at telusplanet.net
"I may be wrong but I'm positive."  -- _Friday_, Robert A. Heinlein