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Abstract base class to facilitate automatic benchmarking of some piece of code. More...
#include <rw/bench.h>
Public Member Functions | |
RWBench (double duration=5, unsigned long ILO=1000, const char *machine=0) | |
void | parse (const char *args) |
virtual void | parse (int argc, char *argv[]) |
virtual void | parse (int argc, const char *argv[]) |
virtual void | go () |
virtual void | doLoop (unsigned long n)=0 |
virtual void | idleLoop (unsigned long n) |
virtual void | what (std::ostream &) const |
void | where (std::ostream &) const |
virtual void | report (std::ostream &) const |
double | setDuration (double t) |
unsigned long | setInnerLoops (unsigned long N) |
double | duration () const |
const char * | machine () const |
unsigned long | innerLoops () const |
double | time () const |
unsigned long | outerLoops () const |
double | ops () const |
double | opsRate () const |
This is an abstract class that can automate the process of benchmarking a piece of code. To use it, derive a class from RWBench, including a definition for the virtual function doLoop(unsigned long N). This function should perform N
operations of the type that you are trying to benchmark. RWBench will call doLoop() over and over again until a preset amount of time has elapsed. It will then sum the total number of operations performed.
To run, construct an instance of your derived class and then call go(). Then call report() to get a standard summary. For many compilers, this summary will automatically include the compiler type and memory model. You can call ops(), outerLoops(), etc. for more detail.
If you wish to correct for overhead, then provide an idleLoop() function which should do all non-benchmark-related calculations.
#include <rw/bench.h> (Abstract base class)
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This example compares string parsing operations by benchmarking a brute force approach versus using RWCString.
#include <cstdlib> #include <iostream> #include <rw/bench.h> // Benchmark software #include <rw/cstring.h> // Rogue Wave string class #include <rw/ctoken.h> #include <rw/regexp.h> // The string to be hashed: static const char* g_string = "A multi-character string with lots of words " "in it to be parsed out and searched for."; struct TestBrute : public RWBench { TestBrute() { } virtual void doLoop(unsigned long); virtual void idleLoop(unsigned long); virtual void what (std::ostream& s) const { s << "Brute force string search: \n"; } }; struct TestRW : public RWBench { public: TestRW() { } virtual void doLoop(unsigned long); virtual void idleLoop(unsigned long); virtual void what (std::ostream& s) const { s << "Rogue Wave search: \n"; } }; // ***************************************************** void TestBrute::doLoop(unsigned long n) { RWCString s (g_string); RWCTokenizer *tokener; RWCString token; tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); while (n--) { if((token = (*tokener)()).isNull()) { delete tokener; tokener = new RWCTokenizer (s); token = (*tokener)(); } size_t j = 0; for(size_t i = 0; i < s.length() && j != token.length(); ++i) for (j = 0; (j < token.length ()) && (s [i + j] == token [j]); ++j) { } } delete tokener; } void TestRW::doLoop (unsigned long n) { RWCString s(g_string); RWCTokenizer *tokener; RWCString token, result; RWCRegexp re(""); tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); while(n--) { if((token = (*tokener)()).isNull()) { delete tokener; tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); token = (*tokener)(); } re = RWCRegexp(token); result = s(re); // Do the search! } delete tokener; } void TestBrute::idleLoop(unsigned long n) { // Subtract the overhead RWCString s(g_string); RWCTokenizer *tokener; RWCString token; tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); while(n--) { if((token = (*tokener)()).isNull()) { delete tokener; tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); token = (*tokener)(); } } delete tokener; } void TestRW::idleLoop(unsigned long n) { RWCString s(g_string); // Subtract out the overhead RWCTokenizer *tokener; RWCString token, result; RWCRegexp re(""); tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); while(n--){ if((token = (*tokener)()).isNull()) { delete tokener; tokener = new RWCTokenizer(s); token = (*tokener)(); } re = RWCRegexp(token); } delete tokener; } // ***************************************************** int main (int argc, char** argv) { std::cout << "Testing string \"" << g_string << "\".\n"; // Test brute force string search algorithm: TestBrute other; other.parse(argc, argv); other.go(); other.report(std::cout); // Test RW searching w/regular expressions: TestRW rw; rw.parse(argc, argv); rw.go(); rw.report(std::cout); return 0; }
Program Output:
Testing string A multi-character string with lots of words in it to be parsed out and searched for. Microsoft C/C++ Brute force string search: Iterations: 60 Inner loop operations: 1000 Total operations: 60000 Elapsed (user) time: 4.39632 Kilo-operations per second: 13.6478 Microsoft C/C++ Rogue Wave search: Iterations: 138 Inner loop operations: 1000 Total operations: 138000 Elapsed (user) time: 2.11304 Kilo-operations per second: 65.3088
RWBench::RWBench | ( | double | duration = 5 , |
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unsigned long | ILO = 1000 , |
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const char * | machine = 0 | |||
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The parameter duration is the nominal amount of time that the benchmark should take in seconds. The virtual function doLoop(unsigned long) is called over and over again until at least this amount of time has elapsed. The parameter ILO is the number of inner loop operations that should be performed. This parameter is passed in as parameter N
to doLoop(N) . Parameter machine is an optional null terminated string that should describe the test environment (perhaps the hardware the benchmark is being run on).
virtual void RWBench::doLoop | ( | unsigned long | n | ) | [pure virtual] |
A pure virtual function whose actual definition should be supplied by the specializing class. This function is repeatedly called until a time duration has elapsed. It should perform the operation to be benchmarked N times. See the example.
double RWBench::duration | ( | ) | const [inline] |
Return the current setting for the benchmark test duration. This should not be confused with the function time(), which returns the actual test time.
virtual void RWBench::go | ( | ) | [virtual] |
Call this function to run the benchmark.
virtual void RWBench::idleLoop | ( | unsigned long | n | ) | [virtual] |
This function can help to correct the benchmark for overhead. The default definition merely executes a "for()" loop n times. See the example.
unsigned long RWBench::innerLoops | ( | ) | const [inline] |
Returns the current setting for the number of inner loop operations that will be passed into function doLoop(unsigned long N) as parameter N
.
const char* RWBench::machine | ( | ) | const [inline] |
This function accesses the name of the machine which is passed into the benchmark object through parse().
double RWBench::ops | ( | ) | const |
Returns the total number of inner loop operations that were performed (the product of the number of times outerLoops() was called times the number of inner loop operations performed per call).
double RWBench::opsRate | ( | ) | const |
Returns the number of inner loop operations per second.
unsigned long RWBench::outerLoops | ( | ) | const |
Returns the number of times the function doLoop() was called.
virtual void RWBench::parse | ( | int | argc, | |
const char * | argv[] | |||
) | [virtual] |
This function allows an easy way to change the test duration, number of inner loops and machine description from the command line.
Argument | Type | Description |
argv [1] | double | Duration (sec.) |
argv [2] | unsigned long | No. of inner loops |
argv [3] | const char* | Machine |
virtual void RWBench::parse | ( | int | argc, | |
char * | argv[] | |||
) | [virtual] |
This function allows an easy way to change the test duration, number of inner loops and machine description from the command line.
Argument | Type | Description |
argv [1] | double | Duration (sec.) |
argv [2] | unsigned long | No. of inner loops |
argv [3] | const char* | Machine |
void RWBench::parse | ( | const char * | args | ) |
This is a non-virtual function that provides the same service as parse(int argc, char * argv[]), but is designed for Windows users. It extracts tokens from the null-terminated command argument provided by Windows, then calls the virtual parse() for ANSI C command arguments.
virtual void RWBench::report | ( | std::ostream & | ) | const [virtual] |
Calling this function provides an easy and convenient way of getting an overall summary of the results of a benchmark.
double RWBench::setDuration | ( | double | t | ) |
Change the test duration to time t.
unsigned long RWBench::setInnerLoops | ( | unsigned long | N | ) |
Change the number of inner loop operations to N.
double RWBench::time | ( | ) | const |
Returns the amount of time the benchmark took, corrected for overhead.
virtual void RWBench::what | ( | std::ostream & | ) | const [virtual] |
You can supply a specializing version of this virtual function that provides some detail of what is being benchmarked. It is called by report() when generating a standard report.
void RWBench::where | ( | std::ostream & | ) | const |
This function prints information to the stream about the compiler and memory model that the code was compiled under.
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