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1#!/usr/bin/env python
2
3# Copyright 2011 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
4#
5# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7# You may obtain a copy of the License at
8#
9#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10#
11# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15# limitations under the License.
16
17"""measure the runtime of a command by repeatedly running it.
18"""
19
20from __future__ import print_function
21
22import time
23import subprocess
24import sys
25
26devnull = open('/dev/null', 'w')
27
28def run(cmd, repeat=10):
29    print('sampling:', end=' ')
30    sys.stdout.flush()
31
32    samples = []
33    for _ in range(repeat):
34        start = time.time()
35        subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
36        end = time.time()
37        dt = (end - start) * 1000
38        print('%dms' % int(dt), end=' ')
39        sys.stdout.flush()
40        samples.append(dt)
41    print()
42
43    # We're interested in the 'pure' runtime of the code, which is
44    # conceptually the smallest time we'd see if we ran it enough times
45    # such that it got the perfect time slices / disk cache hits.
46    best = min(samples)
47    # Also print how varied the outputs were in an attempt to make it
48    # more obvious if something has gone terribly wrong.
49    err = sum(s - best for s in samples) / float(len(samples))
50    print('estimate: %dms (mean err %.1fms)' % (best, err))
51
52if __name__ == '__main__':
53    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
54        print('usage: measure.py command args...')
55        sys.exit(1)
56    run(cmd=sys.argv[1:])
57