Test bench suite

This lets you measure the CPU time taken to execute a function in a generic way. The time returned is in microseconds. Thanks to @cswl for showing me the way of measuring CPU time.

Compile

This suite is available as a shared library. You can compile the library using make lib. This will generate libbenchmark.so. You can then link against this library with your own executable.

How to use this lib?

• In your executable source, include the library header file by #include "benchmark.h".
• If you haven't built the lib already, build using make lib from terminal.
• Define your (long running?) function, so that it can be invoked from your executable source.
• If the function you want to test, has parameters, wrap it up in a void function with no parameters. In that function, call the required long running function and supply appropriate parameters.
• Then create test_t struct, as follows:

test_t sample_test {
    .name = "Name of the test",
    .function = long_running_function_wrapper,
};

• And then run the test by: run_benchmark(&sample_test);

Sample Implementation

Check the test.c to get a brief idea on how to use this.

License

WTFPL