NAME

Benchmark::Confirm - take a Benchmark and confirm returned values

SYNOPSIS

for example, it is ordinary to execute benchmark script...

    perl some_benchmark.pl

and use Benchmark::Confirm

    perl -MBenchmark::Confirm some_benchmark.pl

then you get the result of benchmark and the confirmination.

    Benchmark: timing 1 iterations of Name1, Name2, Name3...
         Name1:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
                (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
         Name2:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
                (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
         Name3:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
                (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
                        Rate Name3 Name1 Name2
    Name3 10000/s    --    0%    0%
    Name1 10000/s    0%    --    0%
    Name2 10000/s    0%    0%    --
    ok 1
    ok 2
    ok 3
    1..3

See the last 4 lines, these are the result of confirmation.

DESCRIPTION

Benchmark::Confirm displays a confirmation after benchmarks that the each values from benchmark codes are equivalent or not.

All you have to do is to use Benchmark::Confirm instead of Benchmark.

However, if you write some benchmarks in the one script, you should call some methods from Benchmark::Confirm. for more details see below METHODS section.

METHODS

See Benchmark#Standard_Exports and Benchmark#Optional_Exports sections.

Moreover, atonce and reset_confirm these functions are only for Benchmark::Confirm.

atonce

atonce function confirms values manually.

You can use this function when you write some benchmarks in one script. Or you shuld use reset function instead on between some benchmarks.

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Benchmark::Confirm qw/timethese/;

    {
        my $result = timethese( 1 => +{
            Name1 => sub { "something" },
            Name2 => sub { "something" },
            Name3 => sub { "something" },
        });
    }

    Benchmark::Confirm->atonce;

    {
        my $result = timethese( 1 => +{
            Name1 => sub { 1 },
            Name2 => sub { 1 },
            Name3 => sub { 1 },
        });
    }

reset_confirm

This function resets stacks of returned value.

IMPORT OPTIONS

TAP

If you want to get valid TAP result, you should add import option TAP.

    perl -MBenchmark::Confirm=TAP some_benchmark.pl

Then you get results as valid TAP like below.

    # Benchmark: timing 1 iterations of Name1, Name2, Name3...
    #      Name1:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
    #             (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
    #      Name2:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
    #             (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
    #      Name3:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
    #             (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
    #                     Rate Name3 Name1 Name2
    # Name3 10000/s    --    0%    0%
    # Name1 10000/s    0%    --    0%
    # Name2 10000/s    0%    0%    --
    ok 1
    ok 2
    ok 3
    1..3

no_plan

If you want to add more tests with benchmarks, you should use import option no_plan.

    use Benchmark::Confirm qw/no_plan timethese cmpthese/;

    my $result = timethese( 1 => +{
        Name1 => sub { "something" },
        Name2 => sub { "something" },
        Name3 => sub { "something" },
    });

    cmpthese $result;

    ok 1, 'additionaly';

Don't worry, Test::More::done_testing invokes in END block of Benchmark::Confirm. So you don't need write that.

CAVEATS

If benchmark code returns CODE reference, then Benchmark::Confirm treats it as string value: 'CODE'. This may change in future releases.

REPOSITORY

Benchmark::Confirm is hosted on github <http://github.com/bayashi/Benchmark-Confirm>

AUTHOR

Dai Okabayashi <bayashi@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Benchmark

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

cpanm Benchmark::Confirm

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Benchmark::Confirm