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1 ;;; benchmark.el --- support for benchmarking code
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
4 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 ;; Author: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
7 ;; Keywords: lisp, extensions
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24 ;;; Commentary:
26 ;; Utilities for timing the execution of forms, including the time
27 ;; taken for GC. Note that prior to timing code you may want to
28 ;; ensure things like: there has just been a GC, the relevant code is
29 ;; already loaded (so that there's no overhead from autoloading etc.),
30 ;; and the code is compiled if appropriate (but see
31 ;; `benchmark-run-compiled').
33 ;;; Code:
35 (defmacro benchmark-elapse (&rest forms)
36 "Return the time in seconds elapsed for execution of FORMS."
37 (let ((t1 (make-symbol "t1"))
38 (t2 (make-symbol "t2")))
39 `(let (,t1 ,t2)
40 (setq ,t1 (current-time))
41 ,@forms
42 (setq ,t2 (current-time))
43 (+ (* (- (car ,t2) (car ,t1)) 65536.0)
44 (- (nth 1 ,t2) (nth 1 ,t1))
45 (* (- (nth 2 ,t2) (nth 2 ,t1)) 1.0e-6)))))
46 (put 'benchmark-elapse 'edebug-form-spec t)
47 (put 'benchmark-elapse 'lisp-indent-function 0)
49 ;;;###autoload
50 (defmacro benchmark-run (&optional repetitions &rest forms)
51 "Time execution of FORMS.
52 If REPETITIONS is supplied as a number, run forms that many times,
53 accounting for the overhead of the resulting loop. Otherwise run
54 FORMS once.
55 Return a list of the total elapsed time for execution, the number of
56 garbage collections that ran, and the time taken by garbage collection.
57 See also `benchmark-run-compiled'."
58 (unless (natnump repetitions)
59 (setq forms (cons repetitions forms)
60 repetitions 1))
61 (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
62 (gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
63 (gc (make-symbol "gc")))
64 `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed)
65 (,gcs gcs-done))
66 (list ,(if (> repetitions 1)
67 ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
68 `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
69 ,@forms))
70 (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions))))
71 `(benchmark-elapse ,@forms))
72 (- gcs-done ,gcs)
73 (- gc-elapsed ,gc)))))
74 (put 'benchmark-run 'edebug-form-spec t)
75 (put 'benchmark-run 'lisp-indent-function 2)
77 ;;;###autoload
78 (defmacro benchmark-run-compiled (&optional repetitions &rest forms)
79 "Time execution of compiled version of FORMS.
80 This is like `benchmark-run', but what is timed is a funcall of the
81 byte code obtained by wrapping FORMS in a `lambda' and compiling the
82 result. The overhead of the `lambda's is accounted for."
83 (unless (natnump repetitions)
84 (setq forms (cons repetitions forms)
85 repetitions 1))
86 (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
87 (gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
88 (gc (make-symbol "gc"))
89 (code (byte-compile `(lambda () ,@forms)))
90 (lambda-code (byte-compile `(lambda ()))))
91 `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed)
92 (,gcs gcs-done))
93 (list ,(if (> repetitions 1)
94 ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
95 `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
96 (funcall ,code)))
97 (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
98 (funcall ,lambda-code))))
99 `(benchmark-elapse (funcall ,code)))
100 (- gcs-done ,gcs) (- gc-elapsed ,gc)))))
101 (put 'benchmark-run-compiled 'edebug-form-spec t)
102 (put 'benchmark-run-compiled 'lisp-indent-function 2)
104 ;;;###autoload
105 (defun benchmark (repetitions form)
106 "Print the time taken for REPETITIONS executions of FORM.
107 Interactively, REPETITIONS is taken from the prefix arg.
108 For non-interactive use see also `benchmark-run' and
109 `benchmark-run-compiled'."
110 (interactive "p\nxForm: ")
111 (let ((result (eval `(benchmark-run ,repetitions ,form))))
112 (if (zerop (nth 1 result))
113 (message "Elapsed time: %fs" (car result))
114 (message "Elapsed time: %fs (%fs in %d GCs)" (car result)
115 (nth 2 result) (nth 1 result)))))
117 (provide 'benchmark)
119 ;; arch-tag: be570e24-4b51-4784-adf3-fa2b56c31946
120 ;;; benchmark.el ends here