Measurement-related functionality extracted from Criterion, with minimal dependencies. The rationale for this is to enable alternative analysis front-ends.
Changes
0.1.3.0
Change criterion_rdtsc to return mach_absolute_time on macOS. This is a
portable way of returning the number of CPU cycles that works on both Intel-
and ARM-based Macs.
Change criterion_gettime to use clock_gettime_nsec_np instead of
mach_absolute_time on macOS. While mach_absolute_time has nanosecond
resolution on Intel-based Macs, this is not the case on ARM-based Macs, so
the previous mach_absolute_time-based implementation would return incorrect
timing results on Apple silicon.
There are two minor consequences of this change:
criterion-measurement now only supports macOS 10.02 or later, as that is
the first version to have clock_gettime_nsec_np. As macOS 10.02 was
released in 2002, this is unlikely to affect users, but please speak up if
this is a problem for you.
As clock_gettime_nsec_np does not require any special initialization
code, criterion_inittime is now a no-op on macOS. If you manually invoke
the getTime function in your code, however, it is still important that
you initializeTime beforehand, as this is still required for the Windows
implementation to work correctly.
0.1.2.0
Ensure that Criterion.Measurement.Types.Internal is always compiled with
optimizations, even if the criterion-measurement library itself happens to
be built with -O0 or -fprof-auto. This is necessary to ensure that the
inner benchmarking loop of criterion always finishes in a timely manner,
even if the rest of the library is not fully optimized.
0.1.1.0
Add nfAppIO and whnfAppIO functions, which take a function and its
argument separately like nf/whnf, but whose function returns IO like
nfIO/whnfIO. This is useful for benchmarking functions in which the bulk
of the work is not bound by IO, but by pure computations that might otherwise
be optimized away if the argument is known statically.
0.1.0.0
This is the first release of criterion-measurement. The changelog notes
below are copied from the notes for the corresponding criterion release,
criterion-1.5.0.0.
Move the measurement functionality of criterion into a standalone package,
criterion-measurement. In particular, cbits/ and Criterion.Measurement
are now in criterion-measurement, along with the relevant definitions of
Criterion.Types and Criterion.Types.Internal (both of which are now under
the Criterion.Measurement.* namespace).
Consequently, criterion now depends on criterion-measurement.
This will let other libraries (e.g. alternative statistical analysis
front-ends) to import the measurement functionality alone as a lightweight
dependency.
Fix a bug on macOS and Windows where using runAndAnalyse and other
lower-level benchmarking functions would result in an infinite loop.