rng-dynamics/performance-micro-benchmarks

A collection of performance micro benchmarks in C++.

Perfomance Micro Benchmarks

A collection of performance micro benchmarks in C++.

Content

• Benchmarks for cache and memory speed.
• Benchmarks for system calls.
• A number of benchmarks for evaluating different methods for dependency injection: benchmark for dependency injection using C++ concepts, benchmark for dependency injection using CRTP, benchmark for dependency injection using pure virtual interface class, benchmark for dependency injection using template duck typing.

Build

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. && make

Executable build artifacts are located in the folders benchmark and test.

$ find benchmark test -type f -executable
benchmark/dependency-injection-header-only/dependency-injection-header-only-benchmarks
benchmark/memory-access/memory-access-benchmarks
benchmark/dependency-injection-static-library/dependency-injection-static-library-benchmarks
benchmark/syscall/syscall-benchmarks
benchmark/dependency-injection-shared-library/dependency-injection-shared-library-benchmarks
test/unit/dependency-injection-header-only/dependency-injection-header-only-unit-tests

Measuring cache and memory speed

Figures 1 to 6 show measurements of memory access times on three different CPUs. Figures 1 and 2 are obtained from an Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 CPU. Figures 3 and 4 are obtained from an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U CPU. Figures 5 and 6 are obtained from an Intel Core i5-8259U CPU. The source code for the benchmark can be found in benchmark_memory_access.cpp.

Figure 1: Cache and memory random read in words per second on an Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 with 32KiB L1 cache, 256 KiB L2 cache, and 15360KiB L3 cache.

Figure 2: Cache and memory random read in bytes per second on an Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 with 32KiB L1 cache, 256 KiB L2 cache, and 15360KiB L3 cache.

Figure 3: Cache and memory random read in words per second on an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with 32KiB L1 cache, 256 KiB L2 cache, and 4096KiB L3 cache.

Figure 4: Cache and memory random read in bytes per second on an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with 32KiB L1 cache, 256 KiB L2 cache, and 4096KiB L3 cache.

Figure 5: Cache and memory random read in words per second on an Intel Core i5-8259U with 32KiB L1 cache, 256 KiB L2 cache, and 6144KiB L3 cache.

Figure 6: Cache and memory random read in bytes per second on an Intel Core i5-8259U with 32KiB L1 cache, 256 KiB L2 cache, and 6144KiB L3 cache.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license - see the LICENSE.md file for details.