;;;; benchmark-suite/lib.scm --- generic support for benchmarking ;;;; Copyright (C) 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;;;; ;;;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ;;;; version 3, or (at your option) any later version. ;;;; ;;;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;;;; GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. ;;;; ;;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;;; License along with this software; see the file COPYING.LESSER. ;;;; If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin ;;;; Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA (define-module (benchmark-suite lib) #:use-module (srfi srfi-9) #:export (;; Controlling the execution. iteration-factor scale-iterations ;; Running benchmarks. run-benchmark benchmark ;; Naming groups of benchmarks in a regular fashion. with-benchmark-prefix with-benchmark-prefix* current-benchmark-prefix format-benchmark-name ;; accessors benchmark-result:name benchmark-result:iterations benchmark-result:real-time benchmark-result:run-time benchmark-result:gc-time benchmark-result:core-time ;; Reporting results in various ways. report current-reporter register-reporter unregister-reporter reporter-registered? make-log-reporter full-reporter user-reporter)) ;;;; If you're using Emacs's Scheme mode: ;;;; (put 'with-benchmark-prefix 'scheme-indent-function 1) ;;;; (put 'benchmark 'scheme-indent-function 1) ;;;; CORE FUNCTIONS ;;;; ;;;; The function (run-benchmark name iterations thunk) is the heart of the ;;;; benchmarking environment. The first parameter NAME is a unique name for ;;;; the benchmark to be executed (for an explanation of this parameter see ;;;; below under ;;;; NAMES. The second parameter ITERATIONS is a positive ;;;; integer value that indicates how often the thunk shall be executed (for ;;;; an explanation of how iteration counts should be used, see below under ;;;; ;;;; ITERATION COUNTS). For example: ;;;; ;;;; (run-benchmark "small integer addition" 100000 (lambda () (+ 1 1))) ;;;; ;;;; This will run the function (lambda () (+ 1 1)) a 100000 times (the ;;;; iteration count can, however be scaled. See below for details). Some ;;;; different time data for running the thunk for the given number of ;;;; iterations is measured and reported. ;;;; ;;;; Convenience macro ;;;; ;;;; * (benchmark name iterations body) is a short form for ;;;; (run-benchmark name iterations (lambda () body)) ;;;; NAMES ;;;; ;;;; Every benchmark in the benchmark suite has a unique name to be able to ;;;; compare the results of individual benchmarks across several runs of the ;;;; benchmark suite. ;;;; ;;;; A benchmark name is a list of printable objects. For example: ;;;; ("ports.scm" "file" "read and write back list of strings") ;;;; ("ports.scm" "pipe" "read") ;;;; ;;;; Benchmark names may contain arbitrary objects, but they always have ;;;; the following properties: ;;;; - Benchmark names can be compared with EQUAL?. ;;;; - Benchmark names can be reliably stored and retrieved with the standard ;;;; WRITE and READ procedures; doing so preserves their identity. ;;;; ;;;; For example: ;;;; ;;;; (benchmark "simple addition" 100000 (+ 2 2)) ;;;; ;;;; In that case, the benchmark name is the list ("simple addition"). ;;;; ;;;; The WITH-BENCHMARK-PREFIX syntax and WITH-BENCHMARK-PREFIX* procedure ;;;; establish a prefix for the names of all benchmarks whose results are ;;;; reported within their dynamic scope. For example: ;;;; ;;;; (begin ;;;; (with-benchmark-prefix "basic arithmetic" ;;;; (benchmark "addition" 100000 (+ 2 2)) ;;;; (benchmark "subtraction" 100000 (- 4 2))) ;;;; (benchmark "multiplication" 100000 (* 2 2)))) ;;;; ;;;; In that example, the three benchmark names are: ;;;; ("basic arithmetic" "addition"), ;;;; ("basic arithmetic" "subtraction"), and ;;;; ("multiplication"). ;;;; ;;;; WITH-BENCHMARK-PREFIX can be nested. Each WITH-BENCHMARK-PREFIX ;;;; appends a new element to the current prefix: ;;;; ;;;; (with-benchmark-prefix "arithmetic" ;;;; (with-benchmark-prefix "addition" ;;;; (benchmark "integer" 100000 (+ 2 2)) ;;;; (benchmark "complex" 100000 (+ 2+3i 4+5i))) ;;;; (with-benchmark-prefix "subtraction" ;;;; (benchmark "integer" 100000 (- 2 2)) ;;;; (benchmark "complex" 100000 (- 2+3i 1+2i)))) ;;;; ;;;; The four benchmark names here are: ;;;; ("arithmetic" "addition" "integer") ;;;; ("arithmetic" "addition" "complex") ;;;; ("arithmetic" "subtraction" "integer") ;;;; ("arithmetic" "subtraction" "complex") ;;;; ;;;; To print a name for a human reader, we DISPLAY its elements, ;;;; separated by ": ". So, the last set of benchmark names would be ;;;; reported as: ;;;; ;;;; arithmetic: addition: integer ;;;; arithmetic: addition: complex ;;;; arithmetic: subtraction: integer ;;;; arithmetic: subtraction: complex ;;;; ;;;; The Guile benchmarks use with-benchmark-prefix to include the name of ;;;; the source file containing the benchmark in the benchmark name, to ;;;; provide each file with its own namespace. ;;;; ITERATION COUNTS ;;;; ;;;; Every benchmark has to be given an iteration count that indicates how ;;;; often it should be executed. The reason is, that in most cases a single ;;;; execution of the benchmark code would not deliver usable timing results: ;;;; The resolution of the system time is not arbitrarily fine. Thus, some ;;;; benchmarks would be executed too quickly to be measured at all. A rule ;;;; of thumb is, that the longer a benchmark runs, the more exact is the ;;;; information about the execution time. ;;;; ;;;; However, execution time depends on several influences: First, the ;;;; machine you are running the benchmark on. Second, the compiler you use. ;;;; Third, which compiler options you use. Fourth, which version of guile ;;;; you are using. Fifth, which guile options you are using (for example if ;;;; you are using the debugging evaluator or not). There are even more ;;;; influences. ;;;; ;;;; For this reason, the same number of iterations for a single benchmark may ;;;; lead to completely different execution times in different ;;;; constellations. For someone working on a slow machine, the default ;;;; execution counts may lead to an inacceptable execution time of the ;;;; benchmark suite. For someone on a very fast machine, however, it may be ;;;; desireable to increase the number of iterations in order to increase the ;;;; accuracy of the time data. ;;;; ;;;; For this reason, the benchmark suite allows to scale the number of ;;;; executions by a global factor, stored in the exported variable ;;;; iteration-factor. The default for iteration-factor is 1. A number of 2 ;;;; means, that all benchmarks are executed twice as often, which will also ;;;; roughly double the execution time for the benchmark suite. Similarly, if ;;;; iteration-factor holds a value of 0.5, only about half the execution time ;;;; will be required. ;;;; ;;;; It is probably a good idea to choose the iteration count for each ;;;; benchmark such that all benchmarks will take about the same time, for ;;;; example one second. To achieve this, the benchmark suite holds an empty ;;;; benchmark in the file 0-reference.bm named "reference benchmark for ;;;; iteration counts". It's iteration count is calibrated to make the ;;;; benchmark run about one second on Dirk's laptop :-) If you are adding ;;;; benchmarks to the suite, it would be nice if you could calibrate the ;;;; number of iterations such that each of your added benchmarks takes about ;;;; as long to run as the reference benchmark. But: Don't be too accurate ;;;; to figure out the correct iteration count. ;;;; REPORTERS ;;;; ;;;; A reporter is a function which we apply to each benchmark outcome. ;;;; Reporters can log results, print interesting results to the standard ;;;; output, collect statistics, etc. ;;;; ;;;; A reporter function takes the following arguments: NAME ITERATIONS ;;;; BEFORE AFTER GC-TIME. The argument NAME holds the name of the benchmark, ;;;; ITERATIONS holds the actual number of iterations that were performed. ;;;; BEFORE holds the result of the function (times) at the very beginning of ;;;; the excution of the benchmark, AFTER holds the result of the function ;;;; (times) after the execution of the benchmark. GC-TIME, finally, holds ;;;; the difference of calls to (gc-run-time) before and after the execution ;;;; of the benchmark. ;;;; ;;;; This library provides some standard reporters for logging results ;;;; to a file, reporting interesting results to the user, (FIXME: and ;;;; collecting totals). ;;;; ;;;; You can use the REGISTER-REPORTER function and friends to add whatever ;;;; reporting functions you like. See under ;;;; TIMING DATA to see how the ;;;; library helps you to extract relevant timing information from the values ;;;; ITERATIONS, BEFORE, AFTER and GC-TIME. If you don't register any ;;;; reporters, the library uses USER-REPORTER, which writes the most ;;;; interesting results to the standard output. ;;;; TIME CALCULATION ;;;; ;;;; The library uses the guile functions `get-internal-run-time', ;;;; `get-internal-real-time', and `gc-run-time' to determine the ;;;; execution time for a single benchmark. Based on these functions, ;;;; Guile makes a , a record containing the elapsed ;;;; run time, real time, gc time, and possibly other metrics. These ;;;; times include the time needed to executed the benchmark code ;;;; itself, but also the surrounding code that implements the loop to ;;;; run the benchmark code for the given number of times. This is ;;;; undesirable, since one would prefer to only get the timing data for ;;;; the benchmarking code. ;;;; ;;;; To cope with this, the benchmarking framework uses a trick: During ;;;; initialization of the library, the time for executing an empty ;;;; benchmark is measured and stored. This is an estimate for the time ;;;; needed by the benchmarking framework itself. For later benchmarks, ;;;; this time can then be subtracted from the measured execution times. ;;;; Note that for very short benchmarks, this may result in a negative ;;;; number. ;;;; ;;;; The benchmarking framework provides the following accessors for ;;;; values. Note that all time values are in ;;;; internal time units; divide by internal-time-units-per-second to ;;;; get seconds. ;;;; ;;;; benchmark-result:name : Return the name of the benchmark. ;;;; ;;;; benchmark-result:iterations : Return the number of iterations that ;;;; this benchmark ran for. ;;;; ;;;; benchmark-result:real-time : Return the clock time elapsed while ;;;; this benchmark executed. ;;;; ;;;; benchmark-result:run-time : Return the CPU time elapsed while this ;;;; benchmark executed, both in user and kernel space. ;;;; ;;;; benchmark-result:gc-time : Return the approximate amount of time ;;;; spent in garbage collection while this benchmark executed, both ;;;; in user and kernel space. ;;;; ;;;; benchmark-result:core-time : Like benchmark-result:run-time, but ;;;; also estimates the time spent by the framework for the number ;;;; of iterations, and subtracts off that time from the result. ;;;; ;;;; This module is used when benchmarking different Guiles, and so it ;;;; should run on all the Guiles of interest. Currently this set ;;;; includes Guile 1.8, so be careful with introducing features that ;;;; only Guile 2.0 supports. ;;;; MISCELLANEOUS ;;;; (define-record-type (make-benchmark-result name iterations real-time run-time gc-time) benchmark-result? (name benchmark-result:name) (iterations benchmark-result:iterations) (real-time benchmark-result:real-time) (run-time benchmark-result:run-time) (gc-time benchmark-result:gc-time)) ;;; Perform a division and convert the result to inexact. (define (->seconds time) (/ time 1.0 internal-time-units-per-second)) ;;; Scale the number of iterations according to the given scaling factor. (define iteration-factor 1) (define (scale-iterations iterations) (let* ((i (inexact->exact (round (* iterations iteration-factor))))) (if (< i 1) 1 i))) ;;; Parameters. (cond-expand (srfi-39 #t) (else (use-modules (srfi srfi-39)))) ;;;; CORE FUNCTIONS ;;;; ;;; The central routine for executing benchmarks. ;;; The idea is taken from Greg, the GNUstep regression test environment. (define benchmark-running? (make-parameter #f)) (define (run-benchmark name iterations thunk) (if (benchmark-running?) (error "Nested calls to run-benchmark are not permitted.")) (if (not (and (integer? iterations) (exact? iterations))) (error "Expected exact integral number of iterations")) (parameterize ((benchmark-running? #t)) ;; Warm up the benchmark first. This will resolve any toplevel-ref ;; forms. (thunk) (gc) (let* ((before-gc-time (gc-run-time)) (before-real-time (get-internal-real-time)) (before-run-time (get-internal-run-time))) (do ((i iterations (1- i))) ((zero? i)) (thunk)) (let ((after-run-time (get-internal-run-time)) (after-real-time (get-internal-real-time)) (after-gc-time (gc-run-time))) (report (make-benchmark-result (full-name name) iterations (- after-real-time before-real-time) (- after-run-time before-run-time) (- after-gc-time before-gc-time))))))) ;;; A short form for benchmarks. (cond-expand (guile-2 (define-syntax-rule (benchmark name iterations body body* ...) (run-benchmark name iterations (lambda () body body* ...)))) (else (defmacro benchmark (name iterations body . rest) `(run-benchmark ,name ,iterations (lambda () ,body ,@rest))))) ;;;; BENCHMARK NAMES ;;;; ;;;; Turn a benchmark name into a nice human-readable string. (define (format-benchmark-name name) (string-join name ": ")) ;;;; For a given benchmark-name, deliver the full name including all prefixes. (define (full-name name) (append (current-benchmark-prefix) (list name))) ;;; A parameter containing the current benchmark prefix, as a list. (define current-benchmark-prefix (make-parameter '())) ;;; Postpend PREFIX to the current name prefix while evaluting THUNK. ;;; The name prefix is only changed within the dynamic scope of the ;;; call to with-benchmark-prefix*. Return the value returned by THUNK. (define (with-benchmark-prefix* prefix thunk) (parameterize ((current-benchmark-prefix (full-name prefix))) (thunk))) ;;; (with-benchmark-prefix PREFIX BODY ...) ;;; Postpend PREFIX to the current name prefix while evaluating BODY ... ;;; The name prefix is only changed within the dynamic scope of the ;;; with-benchmark-prefix expression. Return the value returned by the last ;;; BODY expression. (cond-expand (guile-2 (define-syntax-rule (with-benchmark-prefix prefix body body* ...) (with-benchmark-prefix* prefix (lambda () body body* ...)))) (else (defmacro with-benchmark-prefix (prefix . body) `(with-benchmark-prefix* ,prefix (lambda () ,@body))))) ;;;; Benchmark results ;;;; (define *calibration-result* "") (define (benchmark-overhead iterations accessor) (* (/ iterations 1.0 (benchmark-result:iterations *calibration-result*)) (accessor *calibration-result*))) (define (benchmark-result:core-time result) (- (benchmark-result:run-time result) (benchmark-overhead (benchmark-result:iterations result) benchmark-result:run-time))) ;;;; REPORTERS ;;;; ;;; The global set of reporters. (define report-hook (make-hook 1)) (define (default-reporter result) (if (hook-empty? report-hook) (user-reporter result) (run-hook report-hook result))) (define current-reporter (make-parameter default-reporter)) (define (register-reporter reporter) (add-hook! report-hook reporter)) (define (unregister-reporter reporter) (remove-hook! report-hook reporter)) ;;; Return true iff REPORTER is in the current set of reporter functions. (define (reporter-registered? reporter) (if (memq reporter (hook->list report-hook)) #t #f)) ;;; Send RESULT to all currently registered reporter functions. (define (report result) ((current-reporter) result)) ;;;; Some useful standard reporters: ;;;; Log reporters write all benchmark results to a given log file. ;;;; Full reporters write all benchmark results to the standard output. ;;;; User reporters write some interesting results to the standard output. ;;; Display a single benchmark result to the given port (define (print-result port result) (let ((name (format-benchmark-name (benchmark-result:name result))) (iterations (benchmark-result:iterations result)) (real-time (benchmark-result:real-time result)) (run-time (benchmark-result:run-time result)) (gc-time (benchmark-result:gc-time result)) (core-time (benchmark-result:core-time result))) (write (list name iterations 'total (->seconds real-time) 'user (->seconds run-time) 'system 0 'frame (->seconds (- run-time core-time)) 'benchmark (->seconds core-time) 'user/interp (->seconds (- run-time gc-time)) 'bench/interp (->seconds (- core-time gc-time)) 'gc (->seconds gc-time)) port) (newline port))) ;;; Return a reporter procedure which prints all results to the file ;;; FILE, in human-readable form. FILE may be a filename, or a port. (define (make-log-reporter file) (let ((port (if (output-port? file) file (open-output-file file)))) (lambda (result) (print-result port result) (force-output port)))) ;;; A reporter that reports all results to the user. (define (full-reporter result) (print-result (current-output-port) result)) ;;; Display interesting results of a single benchmark to the given port (define (print-user-result port result) (let ((name (format-benchmark-name (benchmark-result:name result))) (iterations (benchmark-result:iterations result)) (real-time (benchmark-result:real-time result)) (run-time (benchmark-result:run-time result)) (gc-time (benchmark-result:gc-time result)) (core-time (benchmark-result:core-time result))) (write (list name iterations 'real (->seconds real-time) 'real/iteration (->seconds (/ real-time iterations)) 'run/iteration (->seconds (/ run-time iterations)) 'core/iteration (->seconds (/ core-time iterations)) 'gc (->seconds gc-time)) port) (newline port))) ;;; A reporter that reports interesting results to the user. (define (user-reporter result) (print-user-result (current-output-port) result)) ;;;; Initialize the benchmarking system: ;;;; (define (calibrate-benchmark-framework) (display ";; running guile version ") (display (version)) (newline) (display ";; calibrating the benchmarking framework...") (newline) (parameterize ((current-reporter (lambda (result) (set! *calibration-result* result) (display ";; calibration: ") (print-user-result (current-output-port) result)))) (benchmark "empty initialization benchmark" 10000000 #t))) (calibrate-benchmark-framework)