Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] meson: wire up benchmarks

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 09:57:33AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Wire up benchmarks in Meson. The setup is mostly the same as how we wire
> > > up our tests. The only difference is that benchmarks get wired up via
> > > the `benchmark()` option instead of via `test()`, which gives them a bit
> > > of special treatment:
> > >
> > >   - Benchmarks never run in parallel.
> > >
> > >   - Benchmarks aren't run by default when tests are executed.
> > >
> > >   - Meson does not inject the `MALLOC_PERTURB` environment variable.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> > > index 410bbf93dad..2cd05a9b1ba 100644
> > > --- a/meson.build
> > > +++ b/meson.build
> > > @@ -70,6 +70,12 @@
> > >  #      # Execute single test interactively such that features like `debug ()` work.
> > >  #      $ meson test -i --test-args='-ix' t1400-update-ref
> > >  #
> > > +#      # Execute all benchmarks.
> > > +#      $ meson test -i --benchmark
> > > +#
> > > +#      # Execute single benchmark.
> > > +#      $ meson test -i --benchmark p0000-*
> > > +#
> > >  #   Test execution is parallelized by default and scales with the number of
> > >  #   processor cores available. You can change the number of processes by passing
> > >  #   the `-jN` flag to `meson test`.
> >
> > Doesn't the above give the impression that benchmarks are also
> > parallelized by default while the commit message says they are not?
>
> To me it doesn't because it talks about test execution, not benchmark
> execution. The comments for each of the invocations also discern between
> tests and benchmarks. I'm happy to hear about alternative ways to word
> this though.

Maybe something like:

"Test execution (but not benchmark execution) is parallelized by default ..."





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