Operation benchmarking and timing library for Rust
I've seen many, many benchmarking tools. However, no one realizes that we need simplicity to simplify development and increase productivity. I recently have been up with a lot of perf-testing and I seem to run into a huge need for timing tools. I was initially using std::time::Instant::now()and then using the duration_since() to find the difference between the two intervals. That was fine, not that it didn't work, but there was a lot of redundancy. So I made a simple library which is a wrapper around the standard library time crate.
Add this to your cargo.toml:
toml
devtimer = "*"
Then add this line to your source file (i.e main.rs or lib.rs or where you need to use it):
rust
use devtimer::DevTime;
Let's say there are two functions called very_long_operation() and another_op() that take a very long time to execute. Then we can time it's execution as shown below:
```rust
fn main() {
let mut timer = DevTime::new();
timer.start();
verylongoperation();
timer.stop();
println!("The operation took: {} ns", timer.timeinnanos().unwrap());
// You can keep re-using the timer for other operations
timer.start(); // this resets the timer and starts it again
anotherop();
timer.stop();
println!("The operation took: {} secs", timer.timeinsecs().unwrap());
println!("The operation took: {} milliseconds", timer.timeinmillis().unwrap());
println!("The operation took: {} microseconds", timer.timeinmicros().unwrap());
println!("The operation took: {} ns", timer.timein_nanos().unwrap());
// With version 1.1.0 and upwards
timer.start_after(std::time::Duration::from_secs(2));
// The timer will start after two seconds
// Do some huge operation now
timer.stop();
println!("The operation took: {} nanoseconds", devtimer.timeinnanos().unwrap());
}
``
Timing functions available (names are self explanatory):
-timeinsecs()-> Returns the number of seconds the operation took
-timeinmillis()-> Returns the number of milliseconds the operation took
-timeinmicros()-> Returns the number of microseconds the operation took
-timeinnanos()` -> Return the number of nanoseconds the operation took
See the full docs here.
Well, there would be no possible test that I can think of that'd run uniformly across all systems. If I did something like:
rust
let mut timer = DevTime::new();
timer.start();
std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(2));
timer.stop();
assert_eq!(timer.time_in_secs().unwrap(), 2);
It can easily fail (and has failed) as system calls can take time and the time for them will differ across every system. This will necessarily pass on all systems, but when compared on a microsecond or nanosecond level, the tests have failed multiple times. Hence I decided to omit all tests from this crate.
This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License. You can virtually do anything with this crate! Just keep coding and benchmarking