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NAME

Bencher::Scenario::IPCSystemOptions - Measure the overhead of IPC::System::Options's system()over CORE::system()

VERSION

This document describes version 0.03 of Bencher::Scenario::IPCSystemOptions (from Perl distribution Bencher-Scenario-IPCSystemOptions), released on 2017-01-25.

SYNOPSIS

To run benchmark with default option:

 % bencher -m IPCSystemOptions

To run module startup overhead benchmark:

 % bencher --module-startup -m IPCSystemOptions

For more options (dump scenario, list/include/exclude/add participants, list/include/exclude/add datasets, etc), see bencher or run bencher --help.

DESCRIPTION

Conclusion: Testing on my system (IPC::System::Options 0.24, perl: 5.22.0, CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 cores)) shows the overhead to be ~40μs (0.04ms) so for benchmarking commands that have overhead in the range of 10-100ms we normally don't need to worry about the overhead of IPC::System::Option (0.04-0.4%) when we are using default precision (~1%).

BENCHMARKED MODULES

Version numbers shown below are the versions used when running the sample benchmark.

IPC::System::Options 0.29

BENCHMARK PARTICIPANTS

SAMPLE BENCHMARK RESULTS

Run on: perl: v5.24.0, CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) M-5Y71 CPU @ 1.20GHz (2 cores), OS: GNU/Linux LinuxMint version 17.3, OS kernel: Linux version 3.19.0-32-generic.

Benchmark with default options (bencher -m IPCSystemOptions):

 #table1#
 +-------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+
 | participant | rate (/s) | time (ms) | vs_slowest |  errors | samples |
 +-------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+
 | iso-perl    |       176 |      5.67 |       1    | 5.5e-06 |     219 |
 | core-perl   |       177 |      5.64 |       1.01 | 5.5e-06 |     178 |
 | iso-true    |       222 |      4.5  |       1.26 | 4.4e-06 |    1821 |
 | core-true   |       231 |      4.32 |       1.31 | 4.2e-06 |    1894 |
 +-------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+

Benchmark module startup overhead (bencher -m IPCSystemOptions --module-startup):

 #table2#
 +----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+----------------+-----------+------------------------+------------+---------+---------+
 | participant          | proc_private_dirty_size (MB) | proc_rss_size (MB) | proc_size (MB) | time (ms) | mod_overhead_time (ms) | vs_slowest |  errors | samples |
 +----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+----------------+-----------+------------------------+------------+---------+---------+
 | IPC::System::Options | 1.25                         | 4.52               | 16.4           |     11.9  |                   6.03 |       1    | 1.2e-05 |     720 |
 | perl -e1 (baseline)  | 0.824                        | 4.05               | 16             |      5.87 |                   0    |       2.03 | 5.8e-06 |     246 |
 +----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+----------------+-----------+------------------------+------------+---------+---------+

To display as an interactive HTML table on a browser, you can add option --format html+datatables.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Bencher-Scenario-IPCSystemOptions.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Bencher-Scenario-IPCSystemOptions.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Bencher-Scenario-IPCSystemOptions

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.