Benchmark support for CPU instruction counts

hassila · 2024-04-23T16:40:33.980Z

Happy to announce that the latest version of Benchmark now supports CPU instructions retired statistics.

This is done using perf_events on Linux and using rusage on macOS.

For benchmarks running in a VM, this metric might not return any data due to lack of access to CPU performance counters.

See details here:

GitHub

Release 1.23.0 · ordo-one/package-benchmark

1.23.0 (2024-04-23) Adds support for a new metric:.instructions this captures the number of CPU instructions used for executing the benchmark: This is done using perf_events on Linux and using rus...

Dmitriy_Ignatyev · 2024-04-23T17:33:37.485Z

Wow, unbelievable! This is a huge step forward in benchmarking for all Swift ecosystem.