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hyperfine
A command-line benchmarking tool.
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Features
- Statistical analysis across multiple runs.
- Support for arbitrary shell commands.
- Constant feedback about the benchmark progress and current estimates.
- Warmup runs can be executed before the actual benchmark.
- Cache-clearing commands can be set up before each timing run.
- Statistical outlier detection to detect interference from other programs and caching effects.
- Export results to various formats: CSV, JSON, Markdown, AsciiDoc.
- Parameterized benchmarks (e.g. vary the number of threads).
- Cross-platform
Usage
Basic benchmark
To run a benchmark, you can simply call
hyperfine .... The argument(s) can be any shell command. For example:
bash hyperfine 'sleep 0.3'
Hyperfine will automatically determine the number of runs to perform for each command. By default, it will perform at least 10 benchmarking runs. To change this, you can use the
-m/
--min-runsoption:
bash hyperfine --min-runs 5 'sleep 0.2' 'sleep 3.2'
Warmup runs and preparation commands
If the program execution time is limited by disk I/O, the benchmarking results can be heavily influenced by disk caches and whether they are cold or warm.
If you want to run the benchmark on a warm cache, you can use the
-w/
--warmupoption to perform a certain number of program executions before the actual benchmark:
bash hyperfine --warmup 3 'grep -R TODO *'
Conversely, if you want to run the benchmark for a cold cache, you can use the
-p/
--prepareoption to run a special command before each timing run. For example, to clear harddisk caches on Linux, you can run
bash sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_cachesTo use this specific command with Hyperfine, call
sudo -vto temporarily gain sudo permissions and then call:
bash hyperfine --prepare 'sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' 'grep -R TODO *'
Parameterized benchmarks
If you want to run a benchmark where only a single parameter is varied (say, the number of threads), you can use the
-P/
--parameter-scanoption and call:
bash
hyperfine --prepare 'make clean' --parameter-scan num_threads 1 12 'make -j {num_threads}'
This also works with decimal numbers. The -D/
--parameter-step-sizeoption can be used to control the step size:
bash
hyperfine --parameter-scan delay 0.3 0.7 -D 0.2 'sleep {delay}'
This runs sleep 0.3,
sleep 0.5and
sleep 0.7.
Shell functions and aliases
If you are using bash, you can export shell functions to directly benchmark them with hyperfine:
$ my_function() { sleep 1; }
$ export -f my_function
$ hyperfine my_function
If you are using a different shell, or if you want to benchmark shell aliases, you may try to put them in a separate file:
echo 'my_function() { sleep 1 }' > /tmp/my_function.sh
echo 'alias my_alias="sleep 1"' > /tmp/my_alias.sh
hyperfine 'source /tmp/my_function.sh; eval my_function'
hyperfine 'source /tmp/my_alias.sh; eval my_alias'
Export results
Hyperfine has multiple options for exporting benchmark results: CSV, JSON, Markdown (see
--helptext for details). To export results to Markdown, for example, you can use the
--export-markdownoption that will create tables like this:
| Command | Mean [s] | Min [s] | Max [s] | Relative | |:---|---:|---:|---:|---:| |
find . -iregex '.*[0-9]\.jpg$'| 2.275 ± 0.046 | 2.243 | 2.397 | 9.79 ± 0.22 | |
find . -iname '*[0-9].jpg'| 1.427 ± 0.026 | 1.405 | 1.468 | 6.14 ± 0.13 | |
fd -HI '.*[0-9]\.jpg$'| 0.232 ± 0.002 | 0.230 | 0.236 | 1.00 |
The JSON output is useful if you want to analyze the benchmark results in more detail. See the
scripts/folder for some examples.
Installation
On Ubuntu
Download the appropriate
.debpackage from the Release page and install it via
dpkg:
wget https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine/releases/download/v1.11.0/hyperfine_1.11.0_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i hyperfine_1.11.0_amd64.deb
On Fedora
On Fedora, hyperfine can be installed from the official repositories:
dnf install hyperfine
On Alpine Linux
On Alpine Linux, hyperfine can be installed from the official repositories:
apk add hyperfine
On Arch Linux
On Arch Linux, hyperfine can be installed from the official repositories:
pacman -S hyperfine
On NixOS
On NixOS, hyperfine can be installed from the official repositories:
nix-env -i hyperfine
On Void Linux
Hyperfine can be installed via xbps
xbps-install -S hyperfine
On macOS
Hyperfine can be installed via Homebrew:
brew install hyperfine
Or you can install using MacPorts:
sudo port selfupdate sudo port install hyperfine
On FreeBSD
Hyperfine can be installed via pkg:
pkg install hyperfine
On OpenBSD
doas pkg_add hyperfine
With conda
Hyperfine can be installed via
condafrom the
conda-forgechannel:
conda install -c conda-forge hyperfine
With cargo (Linux, macOS, Windows)
Hyperfine can be installed via cargo:
cargo install hyperfine
Make sure that you use Rust 1.43 or higher.
From binaries (Linux, macOS, Windows)
Download the corresponding archive from the Release page.
Alternative tools
Hyperfine is inspired by bench.
Integration with other tools
Chronologer is a tool that uses
hyperfineto visualize changes in benchmark timings across your Git history.
scriptsfolder in this repository for a set of tools to work with
hyperfinebenchmark results.
Origin of the name
The name hyperfine was chosen in reference to the hyperfine levels of caesium 133 which play a crucial role in the definition of our base unit of time — the second.
License
Copyright (c) 2018-2020 The hyperfine developers
hyperfineis distributed under the terms of both the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0.
See the LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT files for license details.