emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/benchmark.el

;;; benchmark.el --- support for benchmarking code  -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
;; Keywords: lisp, extensions

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;;; Commentary:

;; Utilities for timing the execution of forms, including the time
;; taken for GC.  Note that prior to timing code you may want to
;; ensure things like:  there has just been a GC, the relevant code is
;; already loaded (so that there's no overhead from autoloading etc.),
;; and the code is compiled if appropriate (but see
;; `benchmark-run-compiled').

;;; Code:

(defmacro benchmark-elapse (&rest forms)
  "Return the time in seconds elapsed for execution of FORMS."
  (declare (indent 0) (debug t))
  (let ((t1 (make-symbol "t1")))
    `(let (,t1)
       (setq ,t1 (current-time))
       ,@forms
       (float-time (time-subtract nil ,t1)))))

;;;###autoload
(defmacro benchmark-run (&optional repetitions &rest forms)
  "Time execution of FORMS.
If REPETITIONS is supplied as a number, run forms that many times,
accounting for the overhead of the resulting loop.  Otherwise run
FORMS once.
Return a list of the total elapsed time for execution, the number of
garbage collections that ran, and the time taken by garbage collection.
See also `benchmark-run-compiled'."
  (declare (indent 1) (debug t))
  (unless (or (natnump repetitions) (and repetitions (symbolp repetitions)))
    (setq forms (cons repetitions forms)
	  repetitions 1))
  (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
	(gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
	(gc (make-symbol "gc")))
    `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed)
	   (,gcs gcs-done))
       (list ,(if (or (symbolp repetitions) (> repetitions 1))
		  ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
		  `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
					  ,@forms))
		      (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions))))
		`(benchmark-elapse ,@forms))
	     (- gcs-done ,gcs)
	     (- gc-elapsed ,gc)))))

;;;###autoload
(defmacro benchmark-run-compiled (&optional repetitions &rest forms)
  "Time execution of compiled version of FORMS.
This is like `benchmark-run', but what is timed is a funcall of the
byte code obtained by wrapping FORMS in a `lambda' and compiling the
result.  The overhead of the `lambda's is accounted for."
  (declare (indent 1) (debug t))
  (unless (or (natnump repetitions) (and repetitions (symbolp repetitions)))
    (setq forms (cons repetitions forms)
	  repetitions 1))
  (let ((i (make-symbol "i"))
	(gcs (make-symbol "gcs"))
	(gc (make-symbol "gc"))
	(code (byte-compile `(lambda () ,@forms)))
	(lambda-code (byte-compile '(lambda ()))))
    `(let ((,gc gc-elapsed)
	   (,gcs gcs-done))
       (list ,(if (or (symbolp repetitions) (> repetitions 1))
		  ;; Take account of the loop overhead.
		  `(- (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
					  (funcall ,code)))
		      (benchmark-elapse (dotimes (,i ,repetitions)
					  (funcall ,lambda-code))))
		`(benchmark-elapse (funcall ,code)))
	     (- gcs-done ,gcs) (- gc-elapsed ,gc)))))

;;;###autoload
(defun benchmark (repetitions form)
  "Print the time taken for REPETITIONS executions of FORM.
Interactively, REPETITIONS is taken from the prefix arg, and
the command prompts for the form to benchmark.
For non-interactive use see also `benchmark-run' and
`benchmark-run-compiled'."
  (interactive "p\nxForm: ")
  (let ((result (eval `(benchmark-run ,repetitions ,form) t)))
    (if (zerop (nth 1 result))
	(message "Elapsed time: %fs" (car result))
      (message "Elapsed time: %fs (%fs in %d GCs)" (car result)
	       (nth 2 result) (nth 1 result)))))

(provide 'benchmark)

;;; benchmark.el ends here