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NAME

Bencher::Scenario::PERLANCAR::method_call_using_variable - Benchmark calling a method with the name of the method in a variable

VERSION

This document describes version 0.06 of Bencher::Scenario::PERLANCAR::method_call_using_variable (from Perl distribution Bencher-Scenarios-PERLANCAR), released on 2017-01-25.

SYNOPSIS

To run benchmark with default option:

 % bencher -m PERLANCAR::method_call_using_variable

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

DESCRIPTION

BENCHMARK PARTICIPANTS

  • class, literal (perl_code)

    Code template:

     Foo->meth
  • class, variable (perl_code)

    Code template:

     state $meth = "meth"; Foo->$meth
  • object, literal (perl_code)

    Code template:

     state $obj = Foo->new; $obj->meth
  • object, variable (perl_code)

    Code template:

     state $obj = Foo->new; state $meth = "meth"; $obj->$meth

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 PERLANCAR::method_call_using_variable):

 #table1#
 +------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+
 | participant      | rate (/s) | time (ns) | vs_slowest |  errors | samples |
 +------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+
 | class, variable  |   6500000 |     150   |       1    | 6.2e-10 |      23 |
 | object, variable |   6600000 |     150   |       1    | 2.1e-10 |      22 |
 | object, literal  |  10400000 |      96   |       1.6  |   5e-11 |      22 |
 | class, literal   |  10900000 |      91.9 |       1.67 | 7.1e-11 |      27 |
 +------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+

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

BENCHMARK NOTES

Using variable as method name is an extra indirection which has a cost.

HOMEPAGE

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

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Bencher-Scenarios-PERLANCAR.

BUGS

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

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.