1 ;;; benchmark.el --- support for benchmarking code
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2003-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
6 ;; Keywords: lisp, extensions
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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').
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")))
39 (setq ,t1
(current-time))
41 (setq ,t2
(current-time))
42 (float-time (time-subtract ,t2
,t1
)))))
44 (put 'benchmark-elapse
'edebug-form-spec t
)
45 (put 'benchmark-elapse
'lisp-indent-function
0)
48 (defmacro benchmark-run
(&optional repetitions
&rest forms
)
49 "Time execution of FORMS.
50 If REPETITIONS is supplied as a number, run forms that many times,
51 accounting for the overhead of the resulting loop. Otherwise run
53 Return a list of the total elapsed time for execution, the number of
54 garbage collections that ran, and the time taken by garbage collection.
55 See also `benchmark-run-compiled'."
56 (declare (indent 1) (debug t
))
57 (unless (natnump repetitions
)
58 (setq forms
(cons repetitions forms
)
60 (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
61 (gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
62 (gc (make-symbol "gc")))
63 `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed
)
65 (list ,(if (> repetitions
1)
66 ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
67 `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i
,repetitions
)
69 (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i
,repetitions
))))
70 `(benchmark-elapse ,@forms
))
72 (- gc-elapsed
,gc
)))))
75 (defmacro benchmark-run-compiled
(&optional repetitions
&rest forms
)
76 "Time execution of compiled version of FORMS.
77 This is like `benchmark-run', but what is timed is a funcall of the
78 byte code obtained by wrapping FORMS in a `lambda' and compiling the
79 result. The overhead of the `lambda's is accounted for."
80 (declare (indent 1) (debug t
))
81 (unless (natnump repetitions
)
82 (setq forms
(cons repetitions forms
)
84 (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
85 (gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
86 (gc (make-symbol "gc"))
87 (code (byte-compile `(lambda () ,@forms
)))
88 (lambda-code (byte-compile `(lambda ()))))
89 `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed
)
91 (list ,(if (> repetitions
1)
92 ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
93 `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i
,repetitions
)
95 (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i
,repetitions
)
96 (funcall ,lambda-code
))))
97 `(benchmark-elapse (funcall ,code
)))
98 (- gcs-done
,gcs
) (- gc-elapsed
,gc
)))))
101 (defun benchmark (repetitions form
)
102 "Print the time taken for REPETITIONS executions of FORM.
103 Interactively, REPETITIONS is taken from the prefix arg.
104 For non-interactive use see also `benchmark-run' and
105 `benchmark-run-compiled'."
106 (interactive "p\nxForm: ")
107 (let ((result (eval `(benchmark-run ,repetitions
,form
))))
108 (if (zerop (nth 1 result
))
109 (message "Elapsed time: %fs" (car result
))
110 (message "Elapsed time: %fs (%fs in %d GCs)" (car result
)
111 (nth 2 result
) (nth 1 result
)))))
115 ;;; benchmark.el ends here