LV2BENCH(1)

💖 LV2BENCH(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the General Commands Manual page for lv2bench, section 1, and honestly? it's giving "let me time your plugins and spill the receipts" ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lv2bench — benchmark installed and supported LV2 plugins

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lv2bench [-hV] [-b block_size] [-n frames] [-s buffers] [--help]
         [--version]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like, lv2bench runs a simple benchmark of all your installed LV2 plugins. Obsessed. And where do the results go? Straight to stdout, as a simple tab-delimited table — no cap, it's literally just a table you can pipe wherever. 💅

The options are as follows:

• -V, --version — print version information and then dip. that's it, that's the whole job. exit stage left. 🎀
• -b, --block frames — the block length to run, measured in audio frames. this is your chunk size, your little bite-sized piece of audio, your vibe check per iteration. 🍓
• -h, --help — print usage information and exit. the classic "wait how does this work again" button. 🙈
• -n, --length frames — the total number of frames to process. heads up though: this does not include any pre-roll buffers, those come from -s. so like, -s is the warm-up lap and -n is the actual race, and they are counted separately. fr fr. 🔥
• -s, --skip buffers — skip a number of buffers before you start recording timings. it's the "let the engine warm up first" move so your numbers aren't cursed by cold-start nonsense. 🌈

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

lv2bench exits with a status of 0, or non-zero if an error occurred. so if you get a big fat zero, you ate. if you get non-zero, something went sideways and it's not being subtle about it. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• lv2apply(1)
• lv2info(1)
• lv2ls(1)

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

lv2bench is a part of lilv, by David Robillard ⟨d@drobilla.net⟩. iconic behavior, honestly. 💜

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Debian · January 20, 2025 · mwah, that's the whole page bestie, go benchmark something and slay 💖✨🦋