mtc-bench

Benchmark commands using hyperfine and psrecord. Look into CPU, memory and time.

Dependencies

• hyperfine
• psrecord

Installing

Run the install.sh script to install mtc-bench on your /usr/local/bin directory.

You can use the INSTALL_DIR ENV var to install on another place, e.g.:

INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.local/bin ./install.sh

Rebuilding

The build process uses App::Fatpacker to bundle mtc-bench.pl together with it's dependencies and generate mtc-bench.

If you want to change stuff you should edit mtc-bench.pl and in the end run

fatpack pack mtc-bench.pl > mtc-bench

Run

mtc-bench 'CMD1 [ARGS...]' ['CMD2'...]

Example:

mtc-bench 'sleep 2' 'sleep 3'

Alternatively, you can pass a CSV file with commands to be run, using the flag -f CMDS_FILE. The file should have a header row, and then one command per line:

label, prepare, command
cmdLabel1, , command1 arg1 arg2
cmdLabel2, , command2

Options

• -h, --help: Print help message
• -v, --verbose: Print verbose output
• -s, --show-output: Show output of the commands
• -p, --prepare: Prepare commands to run before benchmarking. See hyperfine --help
• -f, --file: Read commands from a CSV file
• -d, --dry-run: Just print the command that would be executed

ENV vars

You can also change the behavior of mtc-bench using the following ENV variables:

• WARMUP: Number of warmup runs
• RES_DIR: Directory to store results
• RUNS: Number of runs

Performance

In mtc-bench, hyperfine invokes psrecord, which in turn invokes the command to be benchmarked. This means that hyperfine is not directly measuring the command's run time, but psrecord's instead.

I ran a few tests on my laptop and psrecord seems to add around 0.7s to the command's run time in each run (probably because it is generating the output log and image). Anyway, it shouldn't change much across runs, so the comparisons between the commands being benchmarked still stand.

Bugs and stuff

Open a GitHub issue or, preferably, send me a pull request.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2024 André Santos [email protected]

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