Zig Benchmarking Basics: Baselines, Variance, CPU Time, and Reports

A practical two-hour session on Zig Benchmarking Basics, focused on Baselines, Variance, CPU Time, and Reports. Zig is used realistically for systems tooling, C interop, parsing, build workflows, and performance-minded components rather than pretending it is a full web platform.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Zig Benchmarking Basics
• Apply Baselines in a small working example
• Apply Variance in a small working example
• Apply CPU Time in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.