ruby/benchmark
eileencodes 637d1cc0c0 Improve the performance of super
This PR improves the performance of `super` calls. While working on some
Rails optimizations jhawthorn discovered that `super` calls were slower
than expected.

The changes here do the following:

1) Adds a check for whether the call frame is not equal to the method
entry iseq. This avoids the `rb_obj_is_kind_of` check on the next line
which is quite slow. If the current call frame is equal to the method
entry we know we can't have an instance eval, etc.
2) Changes `FL_TEST` to `FL_TEST_RAW`. This is safe because we've
already done the check for `T_ICLASS` above.
3) Adds a benchmark for `T_ICLASS` super calls.
4) Note: makes a chage for `method_entry_cref` to use `const`.

On master the benchmarks showed that `super` is 1.76x slower. Our
changes improved the performance so that it is now only 1.36x slower.

Benchmark IPS:

```
Warming up --------------------------------------
               super   244.918k i/100ms
         method call   383.007k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
               super      2.280M (± 6.7%) i/s -     11.511M in   5.071758s
         method call      3.834M (± 4.9%) i/s -     19.150M in   5.008444s

Comparison:
         method call:  3833648.3 i/s
               super:  2279837.9 i/s - 1.68x  (± 0.00) slower
```

With changes:

```
Warming up --------------------------------------
               super   308.777k i/100ms
         method call   375.051k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
               super      2.951M (± 5.4%) i/s -     14.821M in   5.039592s
         method call      3.551M (± 4.9%) i/s -     18.002M in   5.081695s

Comparison:
         method call:  3551372.7 i/s
               super:  2950557.9 i/s - 1.20x  (± 0.00) slower
```

Ruby VM benchmarks also showed an improvement:

Existing `vm_super` benchmark`.

```
$ make benchmark ITEM=vm_super

|          |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:---------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_super  |     21.555M|   37.819M|
|          |           -|     1.75x|
```

New `vm_iclass_super` benchmark:

```
$ make benchmark ITEM=vm_iclass_super

|                 |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:----------------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_iclass_super  |      1.669M|    3.683M|
|                 |           -|     2.21x|
```

This is the benchmark script used for the benchmark-ips benchmarks:

```ruby
require "benchmark/ips"

class Foo
  def zuper; end
  def top; end

  last_method = "top"

  ("A".."M").each do |module_name|
    eval <<-EOM
    module #{module_name}
      def zuper; super; end
      def #{module_name.downcase}
        #{last_method}
      end
    end
    prepend #{module_name}
    EOM
    last_method = module_name.downcase
  end
end

foo = Foo.new

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.report "super" do
    foo.zuper
  end

  x.report "method call" do
    foo.m
  end

  x.compare!
end
```

Co-authored-by: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Co-authored-by: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
2020-09-23 11:52:36 -07:00
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ruby/benchmark

This directory has benchmark definitions to be run with benchmark_driver.gem.

Normal usage

Execute gem install benchmark_driver and run a command like:

# Run a benchmark script with the ruby in the $PATH
benchmark-driver benchmark/app_fib.rb

# Run benchmark scripts with multiple Ruby executables or options
benchmark-driver benchmark/*.rb -e /path/to/ruby -e '/path/to/ruby --jit'

# Or compare Ruby versions managed by rbenv
benchmark-driver benchmark/*.rb --rbenv '2.5.1;2.6.0-preview2 --jit'

# You can collect many metrics in many ways
benchmark-driver benchmark/*.rb --runner memory --output markdown

# Some are defined with YAML for complex setup or accurate measurement
benchmark-driver benchmark/*.yml

See also:

Usage: benchmark-driver [options] RUBY|YAML...
    -r, --runner TYPE                Specify runner type: ips, time, memory, once (default: ips)
    -o, --output TYPE                Specify output type: compare, simple, markdown, record (default: compare)
    -e, --executables EXECS          Ruby executables (e1::path1 arg1; e2::path2 arg2;...)
        --rbenv VERSIONS             Ruby executables in rbenv (x.x.x arg1;y.y.y arg2;...)
        --repeat-count NUM           Try benchmark NUM times and use the fastest result or the worst memory usage
        --repeat-result TYPE         Yield "best", "average" or "worst" result with --repeat-count (default: best)
        --bundler                    Install and use gems specified in Gemfile
        --filter REGEXP              Filter out benchmarks with given regexp
        --run-duration SECONDS       Warmup estimates loop_count to run for this duration (default: 3)
    -v, --verbose                    Verbose mode. Multiple -v options increase visilibity (max: 2)

make benchmark

Using make benchmark, make update-benchmark-driver automatically downloads the supported version of benchmark_driver, and it runs benchmarks with the downloaded benchmark_driver.

# Run all benchmarks with the ruby in the $PATH and the built ruby
make benchmark

# Or compare with specific ruby binary
make benchmark COMPARE_RUBY="/path/to/ruby --jit"

# Run vm benchmarks
make benchmark ITEM=vm

# Run some limited benchmarks in ITEM-matched files
make benchmark ITEM=vm OPTS=--filter=block

# You can specify the benchmark by an exact filename instead of using the default argument:
# ARGS = $$(find $(srcdir)/benchmark -maxdepth 1 -name '*$(ITEM)*.yml' -o -name '*$(ITEM)*.rb')
make benchmark ARGS=benchmark/erb_render.yml

# You can specify any option via $OPTS
make benchmark OPTS="--help"

# With `make benchmark`, some special runner plugins are available:
#   -r peak, -r size, -r total, -r utime, -r stime, -r cutime, -r cstime
make benchmark ITEM=vm_bigarray OPTS="-r peak"