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1 ;;; benchmark.el --- support for benchmarking code
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
6 ;; Keywords: lisp, extensions
8 ;; This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
11 ;; any later version.
13 ;; This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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15 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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19 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
20 ;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
21 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
23 ;;; Commentary:
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').
32 ;;; Code:
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)
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)
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)
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. For
107 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)))))
116 (provide 'benchmark)
118 ;;; arch-tag: be570e24-4b51-4784-adf3-fa2b56c31946
119 ;;; benchmark.el ends here