[llvm-dev] Proposal: pull benchmark library to the LLVM main repository

[Dean Michael Berris via llvm-dev]

I’m a huge fan of having more benchmarks, and support this proposal.

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 at 2:16 am, Kirill Bobyrev via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> As a part of upcoming new Clangd symbol index implementation, we would
> like to start support benchmarks of different Clangd pieces, such as index
> queries and code completion.
>
> There are already two projects in the LLVM tree using google/benchmark
> library while keeping its source code in-tree: libcxx
> (libcxx/utils/google-benchmark) and test-suite
> (test-suite/MicroBenchmarks/libs/benchmark-1.3.0). Storing another copy of
> benchmark library sources in clang-tools-extra would be unreasonable. We
> already have google test library in LLVM tree
> (llvm/utils/unittest/googletest) and it is used across all other
> subprojects, which looks to be very similar to the benchmark library in
> terms of reusing it across the projects. I would like to know if putting
> benchmark library along with googletest would be the best option. At the
> same time, benchmark library could be updated to the newer version (1.4.1)
> in the process of pulling it to the main LLVM repository.
>
> It would be great to get feedback on whether this proposal looks
> reasonable to the LLVM Community and having benchmark in the llvm/
> repository would be the best solution to the described problem.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kirill Bobyrev
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Dean
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