[squeak-dev] Re: A Benchmarking tool for the trunk?

timfelgentreff timfelgentreff at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 10:10:02 UTC 2016


Hi Stefan,

what does your squeak-vm.sh script do? Because on Squeak, I cannot simply
type --help and get output. The mailing list thread you linked refers to
something Pharo specific that I don't think we have in Squeak.


Stefan Marr-3 wrote
> Hi Tim:
> 
>> On 28 Apr 2016, at 13:01, Tim Felgentreff <

> timfelgentreff@

> > wrote:
>> 
>>> - can it be controlled from the command line?
>> 
>> Yes, provided you mean "use a .st file argument". To run a benchmark
>> you can write e.g.
>> - BenchmarkAutosizeSuite run: {'BenchmarkSimpleStatisticsReporter'.
>> 'SMarkShootout'. 100}. # runs all shootout benchmarks for 100 outer
>> iterations, reporting statistics in the autosize suite
>> - BenchmarkCogSuite run: {'BenchmarkSimpleStatisticsReporter'.
>> 'SMarkShootout.benchBinaryTrees'. 100}. # runs the binarytrees
>> benchmarks for 100 outer iterations without autosizing, but with one
>> extra iteration for warmup
> 
> I look at your changes to the code, but if you didn’t remove any SMark
> features, there is also a proper command-line interface.
> 
> See:
> http://forum.world.st/Convention-to-build-cmd-line-interfaces-with-Pharo-td3524056.html
> 
> $ squeak-vm.sh Pharo-1.2.image --help 
> SMark Benchmark Framework, version: SMark-StefanMarr.12 
> 
> Usage: <vm+image> SMarkHarness [runner] [reporter] 
> <suiteOrBenchmark>
>  
>                                [iterations [processes [problemSize]]] 
> 
> Arguments: 
>  runner             optional, a SMarkRunner class that executes the
> benchmarks 
>  reporter           optional, a SMarkReporter class that processes 
>                               and displays the results 
>  suiteOrBenchmark   required, either a SMarkSuite with benchmarks, 
>                               or a benchmark denoted by Suite.benchName 
>  iterations         optional, number of times the benchmarks are repeated 
>  processes          optional, number of processes/threads used by the
> benchmarks 
>  problemSize        optional, depending on benchmark for instance number
> of 
>                               inner iterations or size of used data set 
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Stefan
> 
> -- 
> Stefan Marr
> Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
> http://stefan-marr.de/research/





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