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NAME

Bencher::Scenario::TimeHiRes::sleep_accuracy - Demonstrate inaccuracy of doing lots of small sleep

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of Bencher::Scenario::TimeHiRes::sleep_accuracy (from Perl distribution Bencher-Scenarios-TimeHiRes), released on 2018-12-21.

SYNOPSIS

To run benchmark with default option:

 % bencher -m TimeHiRes::sleep_accuracy

To run module startup overhead benchmark:

 % bencher --module-startup -m TimeHiRes::sleep_accuracy

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

DESCRIPTION

Packaging a benchmark script as a Bencher scenario makes it convenient to include/exclude/add participants/datasets (either via CLI or Perl code), send the result to a central repository, among others . See Bencher and bencher (CLI) for more details.

BENCHMARKED MODULES

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

Time::HiRes 1.9741

BENCHMARK PARTICIPANTS

  • 1e-1 x1 (perl_code)

    Function call template:

     Time::HiRes::sleep(1e-1)
  • 1e-2 x10 (perl_code)

    Function call template:

     Time::HiRes::sleep(1e-2) for 1..10
  • 1e-3 x100 (perl_code)

    Function call template:

     Time::HiRes::sleep(1e-3) for 1..100
  • 1e-4 x1000 (perl_code)

    Function call template:

     Time::HiRes::sleep(1e-4) for 1..1000
  • 1e-5 x10000 (perl_code)

    Function call template:

     Time::HiRes::sleep(1e-5) for 1..10000
  • 1e-6 x100000 (perl_code)

    Function call template:

     Time::HiRes::sleep(1e-6) for 1..100_000

SAMPLE BENCHMARK RESULTS

Run on: perl: v5.26.0, CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 cores), OS: GNU/Linux LinuxMint version 18.2, OS kernel: Linux version 4.8.0-53-generic.

Benchmark with default options (bencher -m TimeHiRes::sleep_accuracy):

 #table1#
 +--------------+-----------+---------+------------+-----------+---------+
 | participant  | rate (/s) |    time | vs_slowest |  errors   | samples |
 +--------------+-----------+---------+------------+-----------+---------+
 | 1e-6 x100000 |    0.178  | 5.61    |      1     |   0.00068 |       6 |
 | 1e-5 x10000  |    1.53   | 0.653   |      8.6   |   0.00058 |       6 |
 | 1e-4 x1000   |    6.4    | 0.156   |     36     |   0.00014 |       6 |
 | 1e-3 x100    |    9.33   | 0.107   |     52.4   | 3.8e-05   |       6 |
 | 1e-2 x10     |    9.924  | 0.1008  |     55.71  | 9.8e-06   |       7 |
 | 1e-1 x1      |    9.9911 | 0.10009 |     56.092 | 7.8e-07   |       6 |
 +--------------+-----------+---------+------------+-----------+---------+

Benchmark module startup overhead (bencher -m TimeHiRes::sleep_accuracy --module-startup):

 #table2#
 +---------------------+-----------+------------------------+------------+---------+---------+
 | participant         | time (ms) | mod_overhead_time (ms) | vs_slowest |  errors | samples |
 +---------------------+-----------+------------------------+------------+---------+---------+
 | Time::HiRes         |      12   |                    7.3 |        1   | 3.9e-05 |       7 |
 | perl -e1 (baseline) |       4.7 |                    0   |        2.4 | 1.2e-05 |       6 |
 +---------------------+-----------+------------------------+------------+---------+---------+

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-Scenarios-TimeHiRes.

SOURCE

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

BUGS

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

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

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018, 2017, 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.