Log whether the starting instance of bitcoin core is a debug or release
build (--enable-debug).
Also warn when running the benchmarks with a debug build, to prevent
mistakes comparing debug to non-debug results.
This replaces the first-fit algorithm used in the Arena with a best-fit. According to "Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and Critical Review", Wilson et. al. 1995, http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14wi-cs140/sched/readings/wilson.pdf, both startegies work well in practice.
The advantage of using best-fit is that we can switch the slow O(n) algorithm to O(log(n)) operations. Additionally, some previously O(log(n)) operations are now replaced with O(1) operations by using a hash map. The end effect is that the benchmark runs about 2.5 times faster on my machine:
old: BenchLockedPool, 5, 530, 5.25749, 0.00196938, 0.00199755, 0.00198172
new: BenchLockedPool, 5, 1300, 5.11313, 0.000781493, 0.000793314, 0.00078606
I've run all unit tests and benchmarks.
* inline performance critical code
* Average runtime is specified and used to calculate iterations.
* Console: show median of multiple runs
* plot: show box plot
* filter benchmarks
* specify scaling factor
* ignore src/test and src/bench in command line check script
* number of iterations instead of time
* Replaced runtime in BENCHMARK makro number of iterations.
* Added -? to bench_bitcoin
* Benchmark plotly.js URL, width, height can be customized
* Fixed incorrect precision warning
fbf327b Minimal code changes to allow msvc compilation. (Aaron Clauson)
Pull request description:
These changes are required to allow the Bitcoin source to build with Microsoft's C++ compiler (#11562 is also required).
I looked around for a better place for the typedef of ssize_t which is in random.h. The best candidate looks like src/compat.h but I figured including that header in random.h is a bigger change than the typedef. Note that the same typedef is in at least two other places including the OpenSSL and Berkeley DB headers so some of the Bitcoin code already picks it up.
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069215e Initialize recently introduced non-static class member lastCycles to zero in constructor (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Initialize recently introduced non-static class member `lastCycles` to zero in constructor.
`lastCycles` was introduced in 3532818746 which was merged into master yesterday.
Friendly ping @laanwj :-)
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std::chrono removes portability issues.
Rather than storing doubles, store the untouched time_points. Then
convert to nanoseconds for display. This allows for maximum precision, while
keeping results comparable between differing hardware/operating systems.
Also, display full nanosecond counts rather than sub-second floats.
We were saving a div by caching the inverse as a float, but this
ended up requiring a int -> float -> int conversion, which takes
almost as much time as the difference between float mul and div.
There are lots of other more pressing issues with the bench
framework which probably require simply removing the adaptive
iteration count stuff anyway.
90d4d89 scripted-diff: Use the C++11 keyword nullptr to denote the pointer literal instead of the macro NULL (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Since C++11 the macro `NULL` may be:
* an integer literal with value zero, or
* a prvalue of type `std::nullptr_t`
By using the C++11 keyword `nullptr` we are guaranteed a prvalue of type `std::nullptr_t`.
For a more thorough discussion, see "A name for the null pointer: nullptr" (Sutter &
Stroustrup), http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2431.pdf
With this patch applied there are no `NULL` macro usages left in the repo:
```
$ git grep NULL -- "*.cpp" "*.h" | egrep -v '(/univalue/|/secp256k1/|/leveldb/|_NULL|NULLDUMMY|torcontrol.*NULL|NULL cert)' | wc -l
0
```
The road towards `nullptr` (C++11) is split into two PRs:
* `NULL` → `nullptr` is handled in PR #10483 (scripted, this PR)
* `0` → `nullptr` is handled in PR #10645 (manual)
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Avoid static analyzer warnings regarding "Function call argument
is a pointer to uninitialized value" in cases where we are
intentionally using such arguments.
This is achieved by using ...
`f(b.begin(), b.end())` (`std::array<char, N>`)
... instead of ...
`f(b, b + N)` (`char b[N]`)
Rationale:
* Reduce false positives by guiding static analyzers regarding our
intentions.
Before this commit:
```
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/base58.cpp
bench/base58.cpp:23:9: warning: Function call argument is a pointer to uninitialized value [clang-analyzer-core.CallAndMessage]
EncodeBase58(b, b + 32);
^
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/verify_script.cpp
bench/verify_script.cpp:59:5: warning: Function call argument is a pointer to uninitialized value [clang-analyzer-core.CallAndMessage]
key.Set(vchKey, vchKey + 32, false);
^
$
```
After this commit:
```
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/base58.cpp
$ clang-tidy-3.5 -checks=* src/bench/verify_script.cpp
$
```
5a9b508 [trivial] Add end of namespace comments (practicalswift)
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c37e32a [Wallet] Prevent CInputCoin to be in a null state (NicolasDorier)
f597dcb [Wallet] Simplify code using CInputCoin (NicolasDorier)
e78bc45 [Wallet] Decouple CInputCoin from CWalletTx (NicolasDorier)
fd44ac1 [Wallet] Rename std::pair<const CWalletTx*, unsigned int> to CInputCoin (NicolasDorier)
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218d915 [bench] Avoid function call arguments which are pointers to uninitialized values (practicalswift)
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45a5aaf Only call clear on prevector if it isn't trivially destructible and don't loop in clear (Jeremy Rubin)
aaa02e7 Add prevector destructor benchmark (Jeremy Rubin)
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db07f91 Assert that what might look like a possible division by zero is actually unreachable (practicalswift)
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ad1ae7a Check and enable -Wshadow by default. (Pavel Janík)
9de90bb Do not shadow variables (gcc set) (Pavel Janík)
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The initialization order of global data structures in different
implementation units is undefined. Making use of this is essentially
gambling on what the linker does, the so-called [Static initialization
order fiasco](https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#static-init-order).
In this case it apparently worked on Linux but failed on OpenBSD and
FreeBSD.
To create it on first use, make the registration structure local to
a function.
Fixes#8910.
5113474 wallet: Use CDataStream.data() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
e2300ff bench: Use CDataStream.data() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
adff950 dbwrapper: Use new .data() method of CDataStream (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a2141e4 streams: Remove special cases for ancient MSVC (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
af4c44c streams: Add data() method to CDataStream (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Fee estimation can just check its own mapMemPoolTxs to determine the same information. Note that now fee estimation for block processing must happen before those transactions are removed, but this shoudl be a speedup.
cee1612 reduce number of lookups in TransactionWithinChainLimit (Gregory Sanders)
af9bedb Test for fix of txn chaining in wallet (Gregory Sanders)
5882c09 CreateTransaction: Don't return success with too-many-ancestor txn (Gregory Sanders)
0b2294a SelectCoinsMinConf: Prefer coins with fewer ancestors (Gregory Sanders)
Make sure that the count is a zero modulo the new mask before
scaling, otherwise the next time until a measure triggers
will take only 1/2 as long as accounted for. This caused
the 'min time' to be potentially off by as much as 100%.
Three categories of modifications:
1)
1 instance of 'The Bitcoin Core developers \n',
1 instance of 'the Bitcoin Core developers\n',
3 instances of 'Bitcoin Core Developers\n', and
12 instances of 'The Bitcoin developers\n'
are made uniform with the 443 instances of 'The Bitcoin Core developers\n'
2)
3 instances of 'BitPay, Inc\.\n' are made uniform with the other 6
instances of 'BitPay Inc\.\n'
3)
4 instances where there was no '(c)' between the 'Copyright' and the year
where it deviates from the style of the local directory.
The new benchmarks exercise script validation, CCoinsDBView caching,
mempool eviction, and wallet coin selection code.
All of the benchmarks added here are extremely simple and don't
necessarily mirror common real world conditions or interesting
performance edge cases. Details about how specific benchmarks can be
improved are noted in comments.
Github-Issue: #7883
Previously the benchmark code used an integer division (%) with
a non-constant in the inner-loop. This is quite slow on many
processors, especially ones like ARM that lack a hardware divide.
Even on fairly recent x86_64 like haswell an integer division can
take something like 100 cycles-- making it comparable to the
runtime of siphash.
This change avoids the division by using bitmasking instead. This
was especially easy since the count was only increased by doubling.
This change also restarts the timing when the execution time was
very low this avoids mintimes of zero in cases where one execution
ends up below the timer resolution. It also reduces the impact of
the overhead on the final result.
The formatting of the prints is changed to not use scientific
notation make it more machine readable (in particular, gnuplot
croaks on the non-fixedpoint, and it doesn't sort correctly).
This also hoists out all the floating point divisions out of the
semi-hot path because it was easy to do so.
It might be prudent to break out the critical test into a macro
just to guarantee that it gets inlined. It might also make sense
to just save out the intermediate counts and times and get the
floating point completely out of the timing loop (because e.g.
on hardware without a fast hardware FPU like some ARM it will
still be slow enough to distort the results). I haven't done
either of these in this commit.
Avoid calling gettimeofday every time through the benchmarking loop, by keeping
track of how long each loop takes and doubling the number of iterations done
between time checks when they take less than 1/16'th of the total elapsed time.
Benchmarking framework, loosely based on google's micro-benchmarking
library (https://github.com/google/benchmark)
Wny not use the Google Benchmark framework? Because adding Even More Dependencies
isn't worth it. If we get a dozen or three benchmarks and need nanosecond-accurate
timings of threaded code then switching to the full-blown Google Benchmark library
should be considered.
The benchmark framework is hard-coded to run each benchmark for one wall-clock second,
and then spits out .csv-format timing information to stdout. It is left as an
exercise for later (or maybe never) to add command-line arguments to specify which
benchmark(s) to run, how long to run them for, how to format results, etc etc etc.
Again, see the Google Benchmark framework for where that might end up.
See src/bench/MilliSleep.cpp for a sanity-test benchmark that just benchmarks
'sleep 100 milliseconds.'
To compile and run benchmarks:
cd src; make bench
Sample output:
Benchmark,count,min,max,average
Sleep100ms,10,0.101854,0.105059,0.103881
