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2018-07-27Update copyright headers to 2018DrahtBot
2018-05-20trivial: Mark overrides as such.Daniel Kraft
This trivial change adds the "override" keyword to some methods of subclasses meant to override interface methods. This ensures that any future change to the interface' method signatures which are not correctly mirrored in the subclass will break at compile time with a clear error message, rather than fail at runtime (which is harder to debug).
2018-01-03Increment MIT Licence copyright header year on files modified in 2017Akira Takizawa
2017-12-23Improved microbenchmarking with multiple features.Martin Ankerl
* inline performance critical code * Average runtime is specified and used to calculate iterations. * Console: show median of multiple runs * plot: show box plot * filter benchmarks * specify scaling factor * ignore src/test and src/bench in command line check script * number of iterations instead of time * Replaced runtime in BENCHMARK makro number of iterations. * Added -? to bench_bitcoin * Benchmark plotly.js URL, width, height can be customized * Fixed incorrect precision warning
2017-11-13Initialize recently introduced non-static class member lastCycles to zero in ↵practicalswift
constructor lastCycles was introduced in 35328187463a7078b4206e394c21d5515929c7de which was merged into master yesterday. Also initialize beginCycles to zero for consistency and completeness.
2017-11-09Require a steady clock for bench with at least micro precisionMatt Corallo
2017-11-07bench: prefer a steady clock if the resolution is no worseCory Fields
2017-11-07bench: switch to std::chrono for time measurementsCory Fields
std::chrono removes portability issues. Rather than storing doubles, store the untouched time_points. Then convert to nanoseconds for display. This allows for maximum precision, while keeping results comparable between differing hardware/operating systems. Also, display full nanosecond counts rather than sub-second floats.
2017-09-11Remove countMaskInv caching in bench frameworkMatt Corallo
We were saving a div by caching the inverse as a float, but this ended up requiring a int -> float -> int conversion, which takes almost as much time as the difference between float mul and div. There are lots of other more pressing issues with the bench framework which probably require simply removing the adaptive iteration count stuff anyway.
2017-05-13Replace boost::function with std::function (C++11)practicalswift
2017-03-21[trivial] Fix typos in commentspracticalswift
2017-02-07bench: Fix initialization order in registrationWladimir J. van der Laan
The initialization order of global data structures in different implementation units is undefined. Making use of this is essentially gambling on what the linker does, the so-called [Static initialization order fiasco](https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#static-init-order). In this case it apparently worked on Linux but failed on OpenBSD and FreeBSD. To create it on first use, make the registration structure local to a function. Fixes #8910.
2016-12-31Increment MIT Licence copyright header year on files modified in 2016isle2983
Edited via: $ contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update .
2016-11-22bench: Add support for measuring CPU cyclesWladimir J. van der Laan
This adds cycle min/max/avg to the statistics. Supported on x86 and x86_64 (natively through rdtsc), as well as Linux (perf syscall).
2016-05-30Avoid integer division in the benchmark inner-most loop.Gregory Maxwell
Previously the benchmark code used an integer division (%) with a non-constant in the inner-loop. This is quite slow on many processors, especially ones like ARM that lack a hardware divide. Even on fairly recent x86_64 like haswell an integer division can take something like 100 cycles-- making it comparable to the runtime of siphash. This change avoids the division by using bitmasking instead. This was especially easy since the count was only increased by doubling. This change also restarts the timing when the execution time was very low this avoids mintimes of zero in cases where one execution ends up below the timer resolution. It also reduces the impact of the overhead on the final result. The formatting of the prints is changed to not use scientific notation make it more machine readable (in particular, gnuplot croaks on the non-fixedpoint, and it doesn't sort correctly). This also hoists out all the floating point divisions out of the semi-hot path because it was easy to do so. It might be prudent to break out the critical test into a macro just to guarantee that it gets inlined. It might also make sense to just save out the intermediate counts and times and get the floating point completely out of the timing loop (because e.g. on hardware without a fast hardware FPU like some ARM it will still be slow enough to distort the results). I haven't done either of these in this commit.
2015-10-27[Trivial] ensure minimal header conventionsPhilip Kaufmann
- ensure header namespaces and end comments are correct - add missing header end comments - ensure minimal formatting (add newlines etc.)
2015-09-30Support very-fast-running benchmarksGavin Andresen
Avoid calling gettimeofday every time through the benchmarking loop, by keeping track of how long each loop takes and doubling the number of iterations done between time checks when they take less than 1/16'th of the total elapsed time.
2015-09-30Simple benchmarking frameworkGavin Andresen
Benchmarking framework, loosely based on google's micro-benchmarking library (https://github.com/google/benchmark) Wny not use the Google Benchmark framework? Because adding Even More Dependencies isn't worth it. If we get a dozen or three benchmarks and need nanosecond-accurate timings of threaded code then switching to the full-blown Google Benchmark library should be considered. The benchmark framework is hard-coded to run each benchmark for one wall-clock second, and then spits out .csv-format timing information to stdout. It is left as an exercise for later (or maybe never) to add command-line arguments to specify which benchmark(s) to run, how long to run them for, how to format results, etc etc etc. Again, see the Google Benchmark framework for where that might end up. See src/bench/MilliSleep.cpp for a sanity-test benchmark that just benchmarks 'sleep 100 milliseconds.' To compile and run benchmarks: cd src; make bench Sample output: Benchmark,count,min,max,average Sleep100ms,10,0.101854,0.105059,0.103881