// 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. // This file prints execution times for the Mul benchmark // given different Karatsuba thresholds. The result may be // used to manually fine-tune the threshold constant. The // results are somewhat fragile; use repeated runs to get // a clear picture. // Usage: go test -run=TestCalibrate -calibrate package big import ( "flag" "fmt" "testing" "time" ) var calibrate = flag.Bool("calibrate", false, "run calibration test") func karatsubaLoad(b *testing.B) { BenchmarkMul(b) } // measureKaratsuba returns the time to run a Karatsuba-relevant benchmark // given Karatsuba threshold th. func measureKaratsuba(th int) time.Duration { th, karatsubaThreshold = karatsubaThreshold, th res := testing.Benchmark(karatsubaLoad) karatsubaThreshold = th return time.Duration(res.NsPerOp()) } func computeThresholds() { fmt.Printf("Multiplication times for varying Karatsuba thresholds\n") fmt.Printf("(run repeatedly for good results)\n") // determine Tk, the work load execution time using basic multiplication Tb := measureKaratsuba(1e9) // th == 1e9 => Karatsuba multiplication disabled fmt.Printf("Tb = %10s\n", Tb) // thresholds th := 4 th1 := -1 th2 := -1 var deltaOld time.Duration for count := -1; count != 0 && th < 128; count-- { // determine Tk, the work load execution time using Karatsuba multiplication Tk := measureKaratsuba(th) // improvement over Tb delta := (Tb - Tk) * 100 / Tb fmt.Printf("th = %3d Tk = %10s %4d%%", th, Tk, delta) // determine break-even point if Tk < Tb && th1 < 0 { th1 = th fmt.Print(" break-even point") } // determine diminishing return if 0 < delta && delta < deltaOld && th2 < 0 { th2 = th fmt.Print(" diminishing return") } deltaOld = delta fmt.Println() // trigger counter if th1 >= 0 && th2 >= 0 && count < 0 { count = 10 // this many extra measurements after we got both thresholds } th++ } } func TestCalibrate(t *testing.T) { if *calibrate { computeThresholds() } }