wasmtime-bench-api: Randomize the locations of heap objects

This helps us avoid measurement bias due to accidental locality of unrelated
heap objects. See *Stabilizer: Statistically Sound Performance Evaluation* by
Curtsinger and Berger for details (although Stabilizer deals with much more than
just the location of heap allocations):
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/stabilizer-asplos13.pdf
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Nick Fitzgerald
2021-01-12 14:02:44 -08:00
parent 47ff726c61
commit bc6dc083f0
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@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ pub type ExitCode = c_int;
pub const OK: ExitCode = 0;
pub const ERR: ExitCode = -1;
// Randomize the location of heap objects to avoid accidental locality being an
// uncontrolled variable that obscures performance evaluation in our
// experiments.
#[cfg(feature = "shuffling-allocator")]
#[global_allocator]
static ALLOC: shuffling_allocator::ShufflingAllocator<std::alloc::System> =
shuffling_allocator::wrap!(&std::alloc::System);
/// Exposes a C-compatible way of creating the engine from the bytes of a single
/// Wasm module.
///