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

Stefan Marr smalltalk at stefan-marr.de
Fri Apr 29 13:45:16 UTC 2016


Hi Tim:

> On 29 Apr 2016, at 12:10, timfelgentreff <timfelgentreff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

At least in Pharo there was/is a way to register a handler for the startup.
SMark used to do that. It then will process the command line arguments.

I don’t remember the details, sorry, and currently don’t have access to the code to check.

Best regards
Stefan

> 
> 
> Stefan Marr-3 wrote
>> Hi Tim:
>> 
>>> On 28 Apr 2016, at 13:01, Tim Felgentreff &lt;
> 
>> timfelgentreff@
> 
>> &gt; 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: &lt;vm+image&gt; 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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