From: Oren <orengolan@...>
Date: 2011-02-07T09:15:25+09:00
Subject: Benchmark in MiniTest

https://gist.github.com/813736

  def test_hot_is_constant
    assert_performance_constant 0.9999 do
      @reddit.hot
    end
  end

  def bench_my_algorithm
    assert_performance_linear 0.9999 do |n| # n is a range value
      n.times do
        @reddit.hot
      end
    end
  end

the output i get is:
TestReddit      1       10      100     1000    10000
bench_hot        0.000039        0.000052        0.000032        0.000033        0.000032
bench_hot2       0.000046        0.000047        0.000088        0.000596        0.005650


my question - Is there a way to set the maximum time for a method to run?
if it goes above it i want it to fail.
what does assert_performance_constant mean? is it a constant speed in relation to the argument the method accepts?

Thanks