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Bencher-Scenarios-Perl-0.03
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NAME

Bencher::Scenario::Perl::Startup - Benchmark startup time of perls

VERSION

This document describes version 0.03 of Bencher::Scenario::Perl::Startup (from Perl distribution Bencher-Scenarios-Perl), released on 2016-03-13.

SYNOPSIS

To run benchmark with default option:

 % bencher -m Perl::Startup

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

BENCHMARK PARTICIPANTS

  • perl-5.6.2 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.8.9 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.8.9/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.10.1 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.10.1/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.10.1 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.10.1/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.12.5 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.5/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.12.5 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.5/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.14.4 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.4/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.14.4 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.4/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.16.3 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.16.3 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.18.4 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.4/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.18.4 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.4/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.20.2 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.2/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.20.2 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.2/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.22.0 -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.22.0 -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0/bin/perl -E1

  • perl-5.22.1-thread-multi-ld -e1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.1-thread-multi-ld/bin/perl -e1

  • perl-5.22.1-thread-multi-ld -E1 (command)

    Command line:

     /home/s1/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.1-thread-multi-ld/bin/perl -E1

SAMPLE BENCHMARK RESULTS

Run on: perl: v5.22.0, CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 cores), OS: GNU/Linux Debian version 8.0, OS kernel: Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64.

Benchmark with default options (bencher -m Perl::Startup):

 +---------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+
 | participant                     | rate (/s) | time (ms) | vs_slowest | errors  | samples |
 +---------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+
 | perl-5.22.1-thread-multi-ld -E1 | 324       | 3.08      | 1          | 3.1e-06 | 425     |
 | perl-5.22.0 -E1                 | 335       | 2.99      | 1.03       | 2.9e-06 | 621     |
 | perl-5.20.2 -E1                 | 341       | 2.93      | 1.05       | 2.9e-06 | 535     |
 | perl-5.16.3 -E1                 | 342       | 2.92      | 1.06       | 2.7e-06 | 919     |
 | perl-5.18.4 -E1                 | 343       | 2.91      | 1.06       | 2.9e-06 | 555     |
 | perl-5.14.4 -E1                 | 354       | 2.83      | 1.09       | 2.7e-06 | 897     |
 | perl-5.12.5 -E1                 | 364       | 2.75      | 1.12       | 2.7e-06 | 416     |
 | perl-5.10.1 -E1                 | 370       | 2.7       | 1.14       | 2.7e-06 | 457     |
 | perl-5.22.1-thread-multi-ld -e1 | 410       | 2.44      | 1.26       | 2.4e-06 | 143     |
 | perl-5.22.0 -e1                 | 417       | 2.4       | 1.29       | 2.4e-06 | 98      |
 | perl-5.18.4 -e1                 | 419       | 2.39      | 1.29       | 2.3e-06 | 432     |
 | perl-5.20.2 -e1                 | 423       | 2.36      | 1.31       | 2.3e-06 | 156     |
 | perl-5.8.9 -e1                  | 428       | 2.34      | 1.32       | 2.3e-06 | 61      |
 | perl-5.16.3 -e1                 | 432       | 2.32      | 1.33       | 2.3e-06 | 198     |
 | perl-5.12.5 -e1                 | 434       | 2.31      | 1.34       | 2.2e-06 | 48      |
 | perl-5.14.4 -e1                 | 433       | 2.31      | 1.33       | 2.3e-06 | 111     |
 | perl-5.10.1 -e1                 | 435       | 2.3       | 1.34       | 2.1e-06 | 79      |
 | perl-5.6.2 -e1                  | 455       | 2.2       | 1.4        | 2.1e-06 | 203     |
 +---------------------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+---------+

DESCRIPTION

Conclusion: in general newer versions of perl has larger startup overhead than previous ones. If startup overhead is important to you, use -e instead of -E unless necessary.

HOMEPAGE

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

SOURCE

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

BUGS

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

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.

SEE ALSO

Bencher::Scenario::Interpreters

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 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.