lisp/emacs-lisp/benchmark.el

   1 ;;; benchmark.el --- support for benchmarking code
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 2003-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Author: Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
   6 ;; Keywords: lisp, extensions
   7
   8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   9
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  14
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  19
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  22
  23 ;;; Commentary:
  24
  25 ;; Utilities for timing the execution of forms, including the time
  26 ;; taken for GC.  Note that prior to timing code you may want to
  27 ;; ensure things like:  there has just been a GC, the relevant code is
  28 ;; already loaded (so that there's no overhead from autoloading etc.),
  29 ;; and the code is compiled if appropriate (but see
  30 ;; `benchmark-run-compiled').
  31
  32 ;;; Code:
  33
  34 (defmacro benchmark-elapse (&rest forms)
  35   "Return the time in seconds elapsed for execution of FORMS."
  36   (let ((t1 (make-symbol "t1"))
  37         (t2 (make-symbol "t2")))
  38     `(let (,t1 ,t2)
  39        (setq ,t1 (current-time))
  40        ,@forms
  41        (setq ,t2 (current-time))
  42        (+ (* (- (car ,t2) (car ,t1)) 65536.0)
  43           (- (nth 1 ,t2) (nth 1 ,t1))
  44           (* (- (nth 2 ,t2) (nth 2 ,t1)) 1.0e-6)))))
  45 (put 'benchmark-elapse 'edebug-form-spec t)
  46 (put 'benchmark-elapse 'lisp-indent-function 0)
  47
  48 ;;;###autoload
  49 (defmacro benchmark-run (&optional repetitions &rest forms)
  50   "Time execution of FORMS.
  51 If REPETITIONS is supplied as a number, run forms that many times,
  52 accounting for the overhead of the resulting loop.  Otherwise run
  53 FORMS once.
  54 Return a list of the total elapsed time for execution, the number of
  55 garbage collections that ran, and the time taken by garbage collection.
  56 See also `benchmark-run-compiled'."
  57   (unless (natnump repetitions)
  58     (setq forms (cons repetitions forms)
  59           repetitions 1))
  60   (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
  61         (gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
  62         (gc (make-symbol "gc")))
  63     `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed)
  64            (,gcs gcs-done))
  65        (list ,(if (> repetitions 1)
  66                   ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
  67                   `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
  68                                           ,@forms))
  69                       (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions))))
  70                 `(benchmark-elapse ,@forms))
  71              (- gcs-done ,gcs)
  72              (- gc-elapsed ,gc)))))
  73 (put 'benchmark-run 'edebug-form-spec t)
  74 (put 'benchmark-run 'lisp-indent-function 2)
  75
  76 ;;;###autoload
  77 (defmacro benchmark-run-compiled (&optional repetitions &rest forms)
  78   "Time execution of compiled version of FORMS.
  79 This is like `benchmark-run', but what is timed is a funcall of the
  80 byte code obtained by wrapping FORMS in a `lambda' and compiling the
  81 result.  The overhead of the `lambda's is accounted for."
  82   (unless (natnump repetitions)
  83     (setq forms (cons repetitions forms)
  84           repetitions 1))
  85   (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
  86         (gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
  87         (gc (make-symbol "gc"))
  88         (code (byte-compile `(lambda () ,@forms)))
  89         (lambda-code (byte-compile `(lambda ()))))
  90     `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed)
  91            (,gcs gcs-done))
  92        (list ,(if (> repetitions 1)
  93                   ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
  94                   `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
  95                                           (funcall ,code)))
  96                       (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
  97                                           (funcall ,lambda-code))))
  98                 `(benchmark-elapse (funcall ,code)))
  99              (- gcs-done ,gcs) (- gc-elapsed ,gc)))))
 100 (put 'benchmark-run-compiled 'edebug-form-spec t)
 101 (put 'benchmark-run-compiled 'lisp-indent-function 2)
 102
 103 ;;;###autoload
 104 (defun benchmark (repetitions form)
 105   "Print the time taken for REPETITIONS executions of FORM.
 106 Interactively, REPETITIONS is taken from the prefix arg.
 107 For non-interactive use see also `benchmark-run' and
 108 `benchmark-run-compiled'."
 109   (interactive "p\nxForm: ")
 110   (let ((result (eval `(benchmark-run ,repetitions ,form))))
 111     (if (zerop (nth 1 result))
 112         (message "Elapsed time: %fs" (car result))
 113       (message "Elapsed time: %fs (%fs in %d GCs)" (car result)
 114                (nth 2 result) (nth 1 result)))))
 115
 116 (provide 'benchmark)
 117
 118 ;;; benchmark.el ends here