[erlang-questions] [ANN] Silly benchmarking

[Jeremy Ong]

I'd be very interested if we got a wiki going on one of these projects
with community updated numbers of various benchmark runs.

For example:

keylists vs orddicts vs dicts
fold vs recursion
fibonacci
all the other various standard benchmarks

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Garrett Smith <g@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED> wrote:
>> On 04/30/2013 06:44 AM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>>> This is not an announcement of anything -- but [ANN] seems to flag
>>> "something I can maybe use" which does apply in this case :)
>>>
>>> Occasionally I wonder, "what's faster"? It's not often, but it happens.
>>>
>>> I've found the best way to answer this is to measure things.
>>>
>>> So I have this silly project:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/gar1t/erlang-bench
>>>
>>> It's not rigorous but it's simple and I can experiment quickly with
>>> different implementations. My goal is just to get a sense of things --
>>> not to formally prove anything.
>>>
>>> It's so trivial it's almost not worth sharing/reusing -- *however* it
>>> may provide value as a distributed repository for what people are
>>> interested in. As it's in github there's no ownership -- please feel
>>> free to fork and use for your own concerns!
>>>
>> You might want to look at erlbench here https://github.com/okeuday/erlbench since it has the same basic purpose, and allows you to use different compilation methods now (through the makefile specifying an optimization level).  The erlbench project is also ad-hoc, but it has been enough to produce results in the past.
>>
>> The other option is trying to use basho_bench here https://github.com/basho/basho_bench, if you are testing key/value storage.
>
> Yes, but you'll notice how *easy* it is to use erlang-bench, which is
> nothing more than escript files with a 10 line include file.
>
> I'm an extraordinarily lazy person :)
>
> Though seriously, thanks for the references. If I was more concerned
> about benchmark integrity, those might be good options -- but this is
> just a sniff test approach to satisfy my curiosity about various
> topics.
>
> Garrett
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