[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libc++] Add benchmark for std::nth_element (PR #210112)
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Author: Louis Dionne (ldionne)
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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/210112.diff
1 Files Affected:
- (added) libcxx/test/benchmarks/algorithms/sorting/nth_element.bench.cpp (+91)
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diff --git a/libcxx/test/benchmarks/algorithms/sorting/nth_element.bench.cpp b/libcxx/test/benchmarks/algorithms/sorting/nth_element.bench.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4c3e8115def30
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+++ b/libcxx/test/benchmarks/algorithms/sorting/nth_element.bench.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+// UNSUPPORTED: c++03, c++11, c++14, c++17
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <array>
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <deque>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "benchmark/benchmark.h"
+#include "common.h"
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+ auto std_nth_element = [](auto first, auto nth, auto last) { return std::nth_element(first, nth, last); };
+
+ // Benchmark std::nth_element on various types of data. We always partition
+ // around the middle element of the full range. We don't benchmark
+ // std::ranges::nth_element separately because it forwards to the same core.
+ //
+ // We run this in batches because nth_element mutates the range in place, so we
+ // restore the original data after each batch.
+ //
+ // We intentionally don't benchmark the predicated version of the algorithm
+ // because that makes the benchmark run too slowly.
+ {
+ auto bm = []<class Container>(std::string name, auto nth_element, auto generate_data) {
+ benchmark::RegisterBenchmark(
+ name,
+ [nth_element, generate_data](auto& st) {
+ std::size_t const size = st.range(0);
+ constexpr std::size_t BatchSize = 32;
+ using ValueType = typename Container::value_type;
+ std::vector<ValueType> data = generate_data(size);
+ std::array<Container, BatchSize> c;
+ std::fill_n(c.begin(), BatchSize, Container(data.begin(), data.end()));
+
+ std::size_t const half = size / 2;
+ while (st.KeepRunningBatch(BatchSize)) {
+ for (std::size_t i = 0; i != BatchSize; ++i) {
+ benchmark::DoNotOptimize(c[i]);
+ nth_element(c[i].begin(), c[i].begin() + half, c[i].end());
+ benchmark::DoNotOptimize(c[i]);
+ }
+
+ st.PauseTiming();
+ for (std::size_t i = 0; i != BatchSize; ++i) {
+ std::copy(data.begin(), data.end(), c[i].begin());
+ }
+ st.ResumeTiming();
+ }
+ })
+ ->Arg(8)
+ ->Arg(1024)
+ ->Arg(8192);
+ };
+
+ auto register_bm = [&](auto generate, std::string variant) {
+ auto gen2 = [generate](auto size) {
+ std::vector<int> data = generate(size);
+ std::vector<support::NonIntegral> real_data(data.begin(), data.end());
+ return real_data;
+ };
+ auto name = [variant](std::string op) { return op + " (" + variant + ")"; };
+ bm.operator()<std::vector<int>>(name("std::nth_element(vector<int>)"), std_nth_element, generate);
+ bm.operator()<std::vector<support::NonIntegral>>(
+ name("std::nth_element(vector<NonIntegral>)"), std_nth_element, gen2);
+ bm.operator()<std::deque<int>>(name("std::nth_element(deque<int>)"), std_nth_element, generate);
+ };
+
+ register_bm(support::quicksort_adversarial_data<int>, "qsort adversarial");
+ register_bm(support::ascending_sorted_data<int>, "ascending");
+ register_bm(support::descending_sorted_data<int>, "descending");
+ register_bm(support::pipe_organ_data<int>, "pipe-organ");
+ register_bm(support::heap_data<int>, "heap");
+ register_bm(support::shuffled_data<int>, "shuffled");
+ register_bm(support::single_element_data<int>, "repeated");
+ }
+
+ benchmark::Initialize(&argc, argv);
+ benchmark::RunSpecifiedBenchmarks();
+ benchmark::Shutdown();
+ return 0;
+}
``````````
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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/210112
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