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Benchmarking

These are some files to determine performance of rustpython.

Usage

Running cargo bench from the root of the repository will start the benchmarks. Once done there will be a graphical report under target/criterion/report/index.html that you can use use to view the results.

To view Python tracebacks during benchmarks, run RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo bench. You can also bench against a specific installed Python version by running:

$ PYTHON_SYS_EXECUTABLE=python3.7 cargo bench

Adding a benchmark

Simply adding a file to the benchmarks/ directory will add it to the set of files benchmarked. Each file is tested in two ways:

  1. The time to parse the file to AST
  2. The time it takes to execute the file

Adding a micro benchmark

Micro benchmarks are small snippets of code added under the microbenchmarks/ directory. A microbenchmark file has two sections:

  1. Optional setup code
  2. The code to be benchmarked

These two sections are delimited by # ---. For example:

a_list = [1,2,3]

# ---

len(a_list)

Only len(a_list) will be timed. Setup or benchmarked code can optionally reference a variable called ITERATIONS. If present then the benchmark code will be invoked 5 times with ITERATIONS set to a value between 100 and 1,000. For example:

obj = [i for i in range(ITERATIONS)]

ITERATIONS can appear in both the setup code and the benchmark code.

MacOS setup

On MacOS you will need to add the following to a .cargo/config file:

[target.x86_64-apple-darwin]
rustflags = [
    "-C", "link-arg=-undefined",
    "-C", "link-arg=dynamic_lookup",
]

Benchmark source