IKSPERF(1)

💖 IKSPERF — ok bestie, let's clock the tea on iksemel ✨

So basically there's this manual page called iksperf, and it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual. Which like, section 1?? that's the "commands you actually run" section, main character energy fr. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

iksperf — the lil program that measures the performance of the iksemel library. no cap, that's the whole job description, she's a benchmark girlie 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

iksperf [OPTIONS] FILE

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

iksperf measures the performance of the iksemel library when parsing FILE.

that's it. that's the vibe. you hand her a file, she tells you how fast iksemel chews through it. it's giving stopwatch but make it XML. ⏱️💜

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -a, --all — run all the tests. every single one. the whole menu, bestie, she's not picking favourites 🍓
• -s, --sax — the sax test. sax girlies rise up 🎷✨
• -d, --dom — the tree generating test. she builds the tree, it's giving arts and crafts 🌳
• -e, --serialize — the tree serializing test. take that tree and turn it back into text, slay 💫
• -1, --sha1 — the SHA1 hashing test. yes it's the number one, yes she's special 🔥
• -b, --block SIZE — parse the file in SIZE byte blocks. so instead of inhaling the whole file at once, she nibbles it in SIZE-sized bites 🍪 (SIZE is a number, pick wisely)
• -m, --memdbg — trace malloc and free calls. nosy but like, in a helpful way. she's watching every single allocation and deallocation, no sneaky leaks getting past her 🙈
• -h, --help — print the help text and exit. the classic "wait what does this do again" button 🫶
• -V, --version — print the version and exit. note the capital V, lowercase -v is a different girl, don't mix them up 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ikslint(1)
• iksroster(1)

the rest of the iksemel friend group, go say hi 🧚

ok that's the whole page, you ate that, go benchmark something and feel iconic doing it 💖

this little love letter to iksperf(1) comes from the General Commands Manual, dated 2008-01-14 — yes she's vintage, yes she still slays, periodt. 👑