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+// Copyright (c) 2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+#ifndef BITCOIN_BENCH_H
+#define BITCOIN_BENCH_H
+
+// Simple micro-benchmarking framework; API mostly matches a subset of the Google Benchmark
+// framework (see https://github.com/google/benchmark)
+// Wny not use the Google Benchmark framework? Because adding Yet Another Dependency
+// (that uses cmake as its build system and has lots of features we don't need) isn't
+// worth it.
+
+/*
+ * Usage:
+
+static void CODE_TO_TIME(benchmark::State& state)
+{
+    ... do any setup needed...
+    while (state.KeepRunning()) {
+       ... do stuff you want to time...
+    }
+    ... do any cleanup needed...
+}
+
+BENCHMARK(CODE_TO_TIME);
+
+ */
+
+
+#include <boost/function.hpp>
+#include <boost/preprocessor/cat.hpp>
+#include <boost/preprocessor/stringize.hpp>
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
+
+namespace benchmark {
+
+    class State {
+        std::string name;
+        double maxElapsed;
+        double beginTime;
+        double lastTime, minTime, maxTime;
+        int64_t count;
+    public:
+        State(std::string _name, double _maxElapsed) : name(_name), maxElapsed(_maxElapsed), count(0) {
+            minTime = std::numeric_limits<double>::max();
+            maxTime = std::numeric_limits<double>::min();
+        }
+        bool KeepRunning();
+    };
+
+    typedef boost::function<void(State&)> BenchFunction;
+
+    class BenchRunner
+    {
+        static std::map<std::string, BenchFunction> benchmarks;
+
+    public:
+        BenchRunner(std::string name, BenchFunction func);
+
+        static void RunAll(double elapsedTimeForOne=1.0);
+    };
+}
+
+// BENCHMARK(foo) expands to:  benchmark::BenchRunner bench_11foo("foo", foo);
+#define BENCHMARK(n) \
+    benchmark::BenchRunner BOOST_PP_CAT(bench_, BOOST_PP_CAT(__LINE__, n))(BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(n), n);
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_BENCH_H