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Author SHA1 Message Date
Pat Hickey
d5fdd835ab port bench-api 2021-01-29 13:25:06 -08:00
Nick Fitzgerald
bc6dc083f0 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
2021-01-12 15:43:26 -08:00
Andrew Brown
41d668b4da Introduce benchmarking API
The new crate introduced here, `wasmtime-bench-api`, creates a shared library, e.g. `wasmtime_bench_api.so`, for executing Wasm benchmarks using Wasmtime. It allows us to measure several phases separately by exposing `engine_compile_module`, `engine_instantiate_module`, and `engine_execute_module`, which pass around an opaque pointer to the internally initialized state. This state is initialized and freed by `engine_create` and `engine_free`, respectively. The API also introduces a way of passing in functions to satisfy the `"bench" "start"` and `"bench" "end"` symbols that we expect Wasm benchmarks to import. The API is exposed in a C-compatible way so that we can dynamically load it (carefully) in our benchmark runner.
2020-12-10 15:02:10 -08:00