Package-benchmark 0.6.0 released

[hassila (Joakim Hassila)]

I'm happy to share a new version (0.6.0) of the package-benchmark SwiftPM command plugin - this release has one major feature and addresses one of the most common sources of confusion of the results - it's now based on the newly released package-histogram greatly improving the experience when you have a wide range of values that are being captured.

The previous version of package-benchmark would have a range of linear buckets (and take the first sample to choose magnitude) and fall back on power-of-two samples if outside the available bucket range (to keep memory usage constant).

The new version has full high-fidelity capture of all samples thanks to the new Histogram.

A couple of examples of before/after (see Memory (allocated) and Memory (resident peak)):

Before:

After:

and

Before:

After:

and Time (wall clock) before:

and after:

You can find the new version at:

GitHub - ordo-one/package-benchmark: Swift benchmark runner with many...

Enjoy!

Joakim