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- package Benchmark;
-
- # Purpose: benchmark running times of code.
- #
- #
- # Usage - to time code snippets and print results:
- #
- # timethis($count, '...code...');
- #
- # prints:
- # timethis 100: 2 secs ( 0.23 usr 0.10 sys = 0.33 cpu)
- #
- #
- # timethese($count, {
- # Name1 => '...code1...',
- # Name2 => '...code2...',
- # ... });
- # prints:
- # Benchmark: timing 100 iterations of Name1, Name2...
- # Name1: 2 secs ( 0.50 usr 0.00 sys = 0.50 cpu)
- # Name2: 1 secs ( 0.48 usr 0.00 sys = 0.48 cpu)
- #
- # The default display style will automatically add child process
- # values if non-zero.
- #
- #
- # Usage - to time sections of your own code:
- #
- # use Benchmark;
- # $t0 = new Benchmark;
- # ... your code here ...
- # $t1 = new Benchmark;
- # $td = &timediff($t1, $t0);
- # print "the code took:",timestr($td),"\n";
- #
- # $t = &timeit($count, '...other code...')
- # print "$count loops of other code took:",timestr($t),"\n";
- #
- #
- # Data format:
- # The data is stored as a list of values from the time and times
- # functions: ($real, $user, $system, $children_user, $children_system)
- # in seconds for the whole loop (not divided by the number of rounds).
- #
- # Internals:
- # The timing is done using time(3) and times(3).
- #
- # Code is executed in the callers package
- #
- # Enable debugging by: $Benchmark::debug = 1;
- #
- # The time of the null loop (a loop with the same
- # number of rounds but empty loop body) is substracted
- # from the time of the real loop.
- #
- # The null loop times are cached, the key being the
- # number of rounds. The caching can be controlled using
- # &clearcache($key); &clearallcache;
- # &disablecache; &enablecache;
- #
- # Caveats:
- #
- # The real time timing is done using time(2) and
- # the granularity is therefore only one second.
- #
- # Short tests may produce negative figures because perl
- # can appear to take longer to execute the empty loop
- # than a short test: try timethis(100,'1');
- #
- # The system time of the null loop might be slightly
- # more than the system time of the loop with the actual
- # code and therefore the difference might end up being < 0
- #
- # More documentation is needed :-(
- # Especially for styles and formats.
- #
- # Authors: Jarkko Hietaniemi <Jarkko.Hietaniemi@hut.fi>
- # Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
- #
- #
- # Last updated: Sept 8th 94 by Tim Bunce
- #
-
- use Exporter;
- @ISA=(Exporter);
- @EXPORT=qw(timeit timethis timethese timediff timestr);
- @EXPORT_OK=qw(clearcache clearallcache disablecache enablecache);
-
- &init;
-
- sub init {
- $debug = 0;
- $min_count = 4;
- $min_cpu = 0.4;
- $defaultfmt = '5.2f';
- $defaultstyle = 'auto';
- # The cache can cause a slight loss of sys time accuracy. If a
- # user does many tests (>10) with *very* large counts (>10000)
- # or works on a very slow machine the cache may be useful.
- &disablecache;
- &clearallcache;
- }
-
- sub clearcache { delete $cache{$_[0]}; }
- sub clearallcache { %cache = (); }
- sub enablecache { $cache = 1; }
- sub disablecache { $cache = 0; }
-
-
- # --- Functions to process the 'time' data type
-
- sub new { my(@t)=(time, times); print "new=@t\n" if $debug; bless \@t; }
-
- sub cpu_p { my($r,$pu,$ps,$cu,$cs) = @{$_[0]}; $pu+$ps ; }
- sub cpu_c { my($r,$pu,$ps,$cu,$cs) = @{$_[0]}; $cu+$cs ; }
- sub cpu_a { my($r,$pu,$ps,$cu,$cs) = @{$_[0]}; $pu+$ps+$cu+$cs ; }
- sub real { my($r,$pu,$ps,$cu,$cs) = @{$_[0]}; $r ; }
-
- sub timediff{
- my($a, $b) = @_;
- my(@r);
- for($i=0; $i < @$a; ++$i){
- push(@r, $a->[$i] - $b->[$i]);
- }
- bless \@r;
- }
-
- sub timestr{
- my($tr, $style, $f) = @_;
- my(@t) = @$tr;
- warn "bad time value" unless @t==5;
- my($r, $pu, $ps, $cu, $cs) = @t;
- my($pt, $ct, $t) = ($tr->cpu_p, $tr->cpu_c, $tr->cpu_a);
- $f = $defaultfmt unless $f;
- # format a time in the required style, other formats may be added here
- $style = $defaultstyle unless $style;
- $style = ($ct>0) ? 'all' : 'noc' if $style=~/^auto$/;
- my($s) = "@t $style"; # default for unknown style
- $s=sprintf("%2d secs (%$f usr %$f sys + %$f cusr %$f csys = %$f cpu)",
- @t,$t) if $style =~ /^all$/;
- $s=sprintf("%2d secs (%$f usr %$f sys = %$f cpu)",
- $r,$pu,$ps,$pt) if $style =~ /^noc$/;
- $s=sprintf("%2d secs (%$f cusr %$f csys = %$f cpu)",
- $r,$cu,$cs,$ct) if $style =~ /^nop$/;
- $s;
- }
- sub timedebug{
- my($msg, $t) = @_;
- print STDERR "$msg",timestr($t),"\n" if ($debug);
- }
-
-
- # --- Functions implementing low-level support for timing loops
-
- sub runloop {
- my($n, $c) = @_;
- my($t0, $t1, $td); # before, after, difference
-
- # find package of caller so we can execute code there
- my ($curpack) = caller(0);
- my ($i, $pack)= 0;
- while (($pack) = caller(++$i)) {
- last if $pack ne $curpack;
- }
-
- my $subcode = "sub { package $pack; my(\$_i)=$n; while (\$_i--){$c;} }";
- my $subref = eval $subcode;
- die "runloop unable to compile '$c': $@\ncode: $subcode\n" if $@;
- print STDERR "runloop $n '$subcode'\n" if ($debug);
-
- $t0 = &new;
- &$subref;
- $t1 = &new;
- $td = &timediff($t1, $t0);
-
- timedebug("runloop:",$td);
- $td;
- }
-
-
- sub timeit {
- my($n, $code) = @_;
- my($wn, $wc, $wd);
-
- printf STDERR "timeit $n $code\n" if $debug;
-
- if ($cache && exists $cache{$n}){
- $wn = $cache{$n};
- }else{
- $wn = &runloop($n, '');
- $cache{$n} = $wn;
- }
-
- $wc = &runloop($n, $code);
-
- $wd = timediff($wc, $wn);
-
- timedebug("timeit: ",$wc);
- timedebug(" - ",$wn);
- timedebug(" = ",$wd);
-
- $wd;
- }
-
-
- # --- Functions implementing high-level time-then-print utilities
-
- sub timethis{
- my($n, $code, $title, $style) = @_;
- my($t) = timeit($n, $code);
- local($|) = 1;
- $title = "timethis $n" unless $title;
- $style = "" unless $style;
- printf("%10s: ", $title);
- print timestr($t, $style),"\n";
- # A conservative warning to spot very silly tests.
- # Don't assume that your benchmark is ok simply because
- # you don't get this warning!
- print " (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)\n"
- if ( $n < $min_count
- || ($t->real < 1 && $n < 1000)
- || $t->cpu_a < $min_cpu);
- $t;
- }
-
-
- sub timethese{
- my($n, $alt, $style) = @_;
- die "usage: timethese(count, { 'Name1'=>'code1', ... }\n"
- unless ref $alt eq HASH;
- my(@all);
- my(@names) = sort keys %$alt;
- $style = "" unless $style;
- print "Benchmark: timing $n iterations of ",join(', ',@names),"...\n";
- foreach(@names){
- $t = timethis($n, $alt->{$_}, $_, $style);
- push(@all, $t);
- }
- # we could produce a summary from @all here
- # sum, min, max, avg etc etc
- @all;
- }
-
-
- 1;
-