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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package testing
+
+import (
+ "flag"
+ "fmt"
+ "os"
+ "runtime"
+ "time"
+)
+
+var matchBenchmarks = flag.String("test.bench", "", "regular expression to select benchmarks to run")
+var benchTime = flag.Float64("test.benchtime", 1, "approximate run time for each benchmark, in seconds")
+
+// An internal type but exported because it is cross-package; part of the implementation
+// of gotest.
+type InternalBenchmark struct {
+ Name string
+ F func(b *B)
+}
+
+// B is a type passed to Benchmark functions to manage benchmark
+// timing and to specify the number of iterations to run.
+type B struct {
+ N int
+ benchmark InternalBenchmark
+ ns int64
+ bytes int64
+ start int64
+}
+
+// StartTimer starts timing a test. This function is called automatically
+// before a benchmark starts, but it can also used to resume timing after
+// a call to StopTimer.
+func (b *B) StartTimer() {
+ if b.start == 0 {
+ b.start = time.Nanoseconds()
+ }
+}
+
+// StopTimer stops timing a test. This can be used to pause the timer
+// while performing complex initialization that you don't
+// want to measure.
+func (b *B) StopTimer() {
+ if b.start > 0 {
+ b.ns += time.Nanoseconds() - b.start
+ }
+ b.start = 0
+}
+
+// ResetTimer sets the elapsed benchmark time to zero.
+// It does not affect whether the timer is running.
+func (b *B) ResetTimer() {
+ if b.start > 0 {
+ b.start = time.Nanoseconds()
+ }
+ b.ns = 0
+}
+
+// SetBytes records the number of bytes processed in a single operation.
+// If this is called, the benchmark will report ns/op and MB/s.
+func (b *B) SetBytes(n int64) { b.bytes = n }
+
+func (b *B) nsPerOp() int64 {
+ if b.N <= 0 {
+ return 0
+ }
+ return b.ns / int64(b.N)
+}
+
+// runN runs a single benchmark for the specified number of iterations.
+func (b *B) runN(n int) {
+ // Try to get a comparable environment for each run
+ // by clearing garbage from previous runs.
+ runtime.GC()
+ b.N = n
+ b.ResetTimer()
+ b.StartTimer()
+ b.benchmark.F(b)
+ b.StopTimer()
+}
+
+func min(x, y int) int {
+ if x > y {
+ return y
+ }
+ return x
+}
+
+func max(x, y int) int {
+ if x < y {
+ return y
+ }
+ return x
+}
+
+// roundDown10 rounds a number down to the nearest power of 10.
+func roundDown10(n int) int {
+ var tens = 0
+ // tens = floor(log_10(n))
+ for n > 10 {
+ n = n / 10
+ tens++
+ }
+ // result = 10^tens
+ result := 1
+ for i := 0; i < tens; i++ {
+ result *= 10
+ }
+ return result
+}
+
+// roundUp rounds x up to a number of the form [1eX, 2eX, 5eX].
+func roundUp(n int) int {
+ base := roundDown10(n)
+ if n < (2 * base) {
+ return 2 * base
+ }
+ if n < (5 * base) {
+ return 5 * base
+ }
+ return 10 * base
+}
+
+// run times the benchmark function. It gradually increases the number
+// of benchmark iterations until the benchmark runs for a second in order
+// to get a reasonable measurement. It prints timing information in this form
+// testing.BenchmarkHello 100000 19 ns/op
+func (b *B) run() BenchmarkResult {
+ // Run the benchmark for a single iteration in case it's expensive.
+ n := 1
+ b.runN(n)
+ // Run the benchmark for at least the specified amount of time.
+ time := int64(*benchTime * 1e9)
+ for b.ns < time && n < 1e9 {
+ last := n
+ // Predict iterations/sec.
+ if b.nsPerOp() == 0 {
+ n = 1e9
+ } else {
+ n = int(time / b.nsPerOp())
+ }
+ // Run more iterations than we think we'll need for a second (1.5x).
+ // Don't grow too fast in case we had timing errors previously.
+ // Be sure to run at least one more than last time.
+ n = max(min(n+n/2, 100*last), last+1)
+ // Round up to something easy to read.
+ n = roundUp(n)
+ b.runN(n)
+ }
+ return BenchmarkResult{b.N, b.ns, b.bytes}
+}
+
+// The results of a benchmark run.
+type BenchmarkResult struct {
+ N int // The number of iterations.
+ Ns int64 // The total time taken.
+ Bytes int64 // Bytes processed in one iteration.
+}
+
+func (r BenchmarkResult) NsPerOp() int64 {
+ if r.N <= 0 {
+ return 0
+ }
+ return r.Ns / int64(r.N)
+}
+
+func (r BenchmarkResult) mbPerSec() float64 {
+ if r.Bytes <= 0 || r.Ns <= 0 || r.N <= 0 {
+ return 0
+ }
+ return float64(r.Bytes) * float64(r.N) / float64(r.Ns) * 1e3
+}
+
+func (r BenchmarkResult) String() string {
+ mbs := r.mbPerSec()
+ mb := ""
+ if mbs != 0 {
+ mb = fmt.Sprintf("\t%7.2f MB/s", mbs)
+ }
+ nsop := r.NsPerOp()
+ ns := fmt.Sprintf("%10d ns/op", nsop)
+ if r.N > 0 && nsop < 100 {
+ // The format specifiers here make sure that
+ // the ones digits line up for all three possible formats.
+ if nsop < 10 {
+ ns = fmt.Sprintf("%13.2f ns/op", float64(r.Ns)/float64(r.N))
+ } else {
+ ns = fmt.Sprintf("%12.1f ns/op", float64(r.Ns)/float64(r.N))
+ }
+ }
+ return fmt.Sprintf("%8d\t%s%s", r.N, ns, mb)
+}
+
+// An internal function but exported because it is cross-package; part of the implementation
+// of gotest.
+func RunBenchmarks(matchString func(pat, str string) (bool, os.Error), benchmarks []InternalBenchmark) {
+ // If no flag was specified, don't run benchmarks.
+ if len(*matchBenchmarks) == 0 {
+ return
+ }
+ for _, Benchmark := range benchmarks {
+ matched, err := matchString(*matchBenchmarks, Benchmark.Name)
+ if err != nil {
+ println("invalid regexp for -test.bench:", err.String())
+ os.Exit(1)
+ }
+ if !matched {
+ continue
+ }
+ for _, procs := range cpuList {
+ runtime.GOMAXPROCS(procs)
+ b := &B{benchmark: Benchmark}
+ benchName := Benchmark.Name
+ if procs != 1 {
+ benchName = fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", Benchmark.Name, procs)
+ }
+ print(fmt.Sprintf("%s\t", benchName))
+ r := b.run()
+ print(fmt.Sprintf("%v\n", r))
+ if p := runtime.GOMAXPROCS(-1); p != procs {
+ print(fmt.Sprintf("%s left GOMAXPROCS set to %d\n", benchName, p))
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+// Benchmark benchmarks a single function. Useful for creating
+// custom benchmarks that do not use gotest.
+func Benchmark(f func(b *B)) BenchmarkResult {
+ b := &B{benchmark: InternalBenchmark{"", f}}
+ return b.run()
+}