On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annu...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > > 22.03.10, 18:56, "Tim Vandermeersch" <tim.vandermeer...@gmail.com>: > >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >> > Are there any perforamnce benchmark scripts for OB? E.g., I'd like to test >> > if OB compiled by Intel is faster than by GCC or if -O3 optimization with >> > Intel is more effective than -O2 >> Are there specific parts of the code you want to test? For >> example,OBMol::ConnectTheDots could be made faster for large >> molecules. > > Yes, it's quite slow. But it's a problem of algorithm, not compiler > >>I don't know if anyone has been benchmarking OB code (apart >> from force field code). >> On linux, you can always use the time command to check how long >> something takes. We could also add some macros to obtest.h to do >> benchmarking. > > I know. I wondered if there are some "ready" benchmarks to do less work
In openbabel trunk, I added test/obbench.h to provide some macros for performance benchmarking. It provides millisecond precision but converts to minutes/seconds when needed. Using it is very simple: OB_BENCHMARK { // code to benchmark here... } Multiple iterations are performed when a single iteration takes less than 500ms (could be changed, this is an idea taken from Qt's QBENCHMARK). I also added a feature I miss in QBENCHMARK: A way to track benchmarks over time. It is still very basic but the idea is that the benchmark results get saved to a benchmark.txt file. The formatting of the file allows the content to be copied to a spreadsheet for analysis. To use this, a different macro is used: OB_NAMED_BENCHMARK("Some name identifying the benchmark") { // code.... } With some cmake magic, it should be possible to record compiler and compiler options. Otherwise, date/time could be recorded. Feedback is welcome. I didn't add this to test/CMakeLists.txt since I didn't want to break anything. It should work though. I've tested here on linux and windows XP. Cheers, Tim > -- > Regards, > Konstantin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel