Ever since 5b594f457a ("Threaded grep", 2010-01-25) the number of
threads git-grep uses under PTHREADS has been hardcoded to 8, but
there's no performance test to check whether this is an optimal
setting.
Amend the existing tests for the grep engines to support a mode where
this can be tested, e.g.:
GIT_PERF_GREP_THREADS='1 8 16' GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux ./run p782*
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a performance comparison test of grep regex engines given fixed
strings.
The current logic in compile_regexp() ignores the engine parameter and
uses kwset() to search for these, so this test shows no difference
between engines right now:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux ./run p7821-grep-engines-fixed.sh
[...]
Test this tree
------------------------------------------------
7821.1: fixed grep int 0.56(1.67+0.68)
7821.2: basic grep int 0.57(1.70+0.57)
7821.3: extended grep int 0.59(1.76+0.51)
7821.4: perl grep int 1.08(1.71+0.55)
7821.6: fixed grep uncommon 0.23(0.55+0.50)
7821.7: basic grep uncommon 0.24(0.55+0.50)
7821.8: extended grep uncommon 0.26(0.55+0.52)
7821.9: perl grep uncommon 0.24(0.58+0.47)
7821.11: fixed grep æ 0.36(1.30+0.42)
7821.12: basic grep æ 0.36(1.32+0.40)
7821.13: extended grep æ 0.38(1.30+0.42)
7821.14: perl grep æ 0.35(1.24+0.48)
Only when run with -i via GIT_PERF_7821_GREP_OPTS=' -i' do we avoid
avoid going through the same kwset.[ch] codepath, see the "Even when
-F..." comment in grep.c. This only kicks for the non-ASCII case:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_7821_GREP_OPTS=' -i' ./run p7821-grep-engines-fixed.sh
[...]
Test this tree
---------------------------------------------------
7821.1: fixed grep -i int 0.62(2.10+0.57)
7821.2: basic grep -i int 0.68(1.90+0.61)
7821.3: extended grep -i int 0.78(1.94+0.57)
7821.4: perl grep -i int 0.98(1.78+0.74)
7821.6: fixed grep -i uncommon 0.24(0.44+0.64)
7821.7: basic grep -i uncommon 0.25(0.56+0.54)
7821.8: extended grep -i uncommon 0.27(0.62+0.45)
7821.9: perl grep -i uncommon 0.24(0.59+0.49)
7821.11: fixed grep -i æ 0.30(0.96+0.39)
7821.12: basic grep -i æ 0.27(0.92+0.44)
7821.13: extended grep -i æ 0.28(0.90+0.46)
7821.14: perl grep -i æ 0.28(0.74+0.49)
I'm planning to change how fixed-string searching happens. This test
gives a baseline for comparing performance before & after any such
change.
See commit ("perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines",
2017-04-19) for details on the machine the above test run was executed
on.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
