bench_intro(n)

💖 bench_intro(n) — the glow-up guide 💖

Benchmarking/Performance tools · section n · bestie we are SO back

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✨ NAME ✨

bench_intro — bench introduction

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, bench (short for benchmark tools, cute right) is a set of related, yet different, entities that all work together so you can easily create AND execute performance test suites — aka benchmarks. iconic behaviour honestly. and these entities are:

1. A tcl based language for the declaration of test cases. A test case is represented by a tcl command declaring the various parts needed to execute it, like setup, cleanup, the commands to test, etc.
2. A package providing the ability to execute test cases written in that language.

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now, which of the more detailed documents is actually relevant to you depends on your role in the benchmarking process. vibe check time 🫶

1. A writer of benchmarks has to understand the bench language itself. A beginner to bench should read the more informally written bench language introduction first. Having digested this, the formal bench language specification should become understandable. A writer experienced with bench may only need this last document from time to time, to refresh her memory.
2. A user of benchmark suites written in the bench language has to know which tools are available for use. At the bottom level sits the package bench, providing the basic facilities to read and execute files containing benchmarks written in the bench language, and to manipulate benchmark results.

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🕰️ HISTORICAL NOTES 🕰️

This module and package have been derived from Jeff Hobbs' tclbench application for the benchmarking of the Tcl core and its ancestor "runbench.tcl". the lore is real 💜

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😭 BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK 😭

This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. no cap, it's gonna happen. Please report such in the category bench of the Tcllib Trackers [http://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/reportlist]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. bestie we WANT your thoughts 🙈

When proposing code changes, please provide unified diffs, i.e the output of diff -u.

Note further that attachments are strongly preferred over inlined patches. Attachments can be made by going to the Edit form of the ticket immediately after its creation, and then using the left-most button in the secondary navigation bar. pleaseeee do this, it's the whole vibe 💅

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• bench
• bench_lang_faq
• bench_lang_intro
• bench_lang_spec

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🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

bench language, benchmark, performance, testing

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🦋 CATEGORY 🦋

Benchmark tools

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2007 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! brought to you by tcllib, version 1.0 (the manual page bench_intro(n) itself) 🫶✨ slay, go write some benchmarks 💖