From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2007-03-07T22:26:35+09:00
Subject: A better benchmarking syntax (was: Automatic Benchmark Iterations)

Reading Phrogz' post about automatic benchmark iterations, and then
seeing Mauricios' lovely Adaptative Benchmark[1], I came to think we
might need a friendlier syntax for benchmarks all together. Minutes
later, I discovered that someone had almost the same idea as me[2].
Anyway, I'd like to just throw it out here, and hear what you people
think.

The idea is to make benchmarks syntactically similar to the current
Test::Unit test cases, e.g.

  class SortBenchmark < Benchmark
    def setup
      @array = [1, 6, 2, 9, 4, 6, 2]
    end
    
    def teardown
      @array = nil
    end
    
    def report_quicksort
      @array.quicksort
    end
    
    def report_mergesort
      @array.mergesort
    end
  end

Automatic iteration could be added, either as a class method call or by
creating a different base class (IterativeBenchmark?)

So, what do y'all think? If I'm not the only one liking this, I might
whip something up when I get some spare time...


Cheers,
Daniel



 1. http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?cmd=view&p=adaptative
+benchmark&key=TDD
 2. http://djberg96.livejournal.com/52734.html