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diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md index 357334dfb2..c30f29452b 100644 --- a/doc/README.md +++ b/doc/README.md @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ The Bitcoin repo's [root README](/README.md) contains relevant information on th - [Shared Libraries](shared-libraries.md) - [BIPS](bips.md) - [Dnsseed Policy](dnsseed-policy.md) +- [Benchmarking](benchmarking.md) ### Resources * Discuss on the [BitcoinTalk](https://bitcointalk.org/) forums, in the [Development & Technical Discussion board](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0). diff --git a/doc/benchmarking.md b/doc/benchmarking.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0ba75afcda --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/benchmarking.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Benchmarking +============ + +Bitcoin Core has an internal benchmarking framework, with benchmarks +for cryptographic algorithms such as SHA1, SHA256, SHA512 and RIPEMD160. As well as the rolling bloom filter. + +After compiling bitcoin-core, the benchmarks can be run with: +`src/bench/bench_bitcoin` + +The output will look similar to: +``` +#Benchmark,count,min,max,average +RIPEMD160,448,0.001245033173334,0.002638196945190,0.002461894814457 +RollingBloom-refresh,1,0.000635000000000,0.000635000000000,0.000635000000000 +RollingBloom-refresh,1,0.000108000000000,0.000108000000000,0.000108000000000 +RollingBloom-refresh,1,0.000107000000000,0.000107000000000,0.000107000000000 +RollingBloom-refresh,1,0.000204000000000,0.000204000000000,0.000204000000000 +SHA1,640,0.000909024336207,0.001938136418660,0.001843086257577 +SHA256,256,0.002209486499909,0.008500099182129,0.004300644621253 +SHA512,384,0.001319904176016,0.002813005447388,0.002615700786312 +Sleep100ms,10,0.205592155456543,0.210056066513062,0.104166316986084 +Trig,67108864,0.000000014997003,0.000000015448112,0.000000015188842 +``` + +More benchmarks are needed for, in no particular order: +- Script Validation +- CCoinDBView caching +- Coins database +- Memory pool +- Wallet coin selection |