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NAME

Bencher::Scenario::ExceptionHandling - Benchmark various ways to do exception handling in Perl

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of Bencher::Scenario::ExceptionHandling (from Perl distribution Bencher-Scenario-ExceptionHandling), released on 2024-02-23.

SYNOPSIS

To run benchmark with default option:


            

              
              
% bencher -m ExceptionHandling

To run module startup overhead benchmark:


            

              
              
% bencher --module-startup -m ExceptionHandling

For more options (dump scenario, list/include/exclude/add participants, list/include/exclude/add datasets, etc), see bencher or run bencher --help.

DESCRIPTION

Keywords: try-catch, eval, die

TODO: benchmark other try-catch modules.

BENCHMARKED MODULES

Version numbers shown below are the versions used when running the sample benchmark.

Try::Tiny 0.31

BENCHMARK PARTICIPANTS

  • builtin-try (perl_code)

    Code template:

    
            
    
              
              
    use feature 'try'; use experimental 'try'; try { <code_try:raw> } catch($e) { <code_catch:raw> }

    Requires perl 5.34+.

  • naive-eval (perl_code)

    Code template:

    
            
    
              
              
    eval { <code_try:raw> }; if ($@) { <code_catch:raw> }

  • eval-localize-die-signal-and-eval-error (perl_code)

    Code template:

    
            
    
              
              
    { local $@; local $SIG{__DIE__}; eval { <code_try:raw> }; if ($@) { <code_catch:raw> } }

  • Try::Tiny (perl_code)

    Code template:

    
            
    
              
              
    use Try::Tiny; try { <code_try:raw> } catch { <code_catch:raw> }

BENCHMARK DATASETS

  • empty try, empty catch

  • die in try, empty catch

BENCHMARK SAMPLE RESULTS

Sample benchmark #1

Run on: perl: v5.38.2, CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz (2 cores), OS: GNU/Linux Ubuntu version 20.04, OS kernel: Linux version 5.4.0-164-generic.

Benchmark command (default options):


            

              
              
% bencher -m ExceptionHandling

Result formatted as table (split, part 1 of 2):


            

              
              
#table1#
{dataset=>"die in try, empty catch"}
+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+
| participant                             | rate (/s) | time (μs) | pct_faster_vs_slowest | pct_slower_vs_fastest |  errors | samples |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+
| Try::Tiny                               |    310000 |      3.23 |                 0.00% |               602.22% | 2.1e-09 |       8 |
| eval-localize-die-signal-and-eval-error |   1000000 |      1    |               207.56% |               128.32% | 1.2e-08 |       9 |
| builtin-try                             |   1700000 |      0.6  |               438.20% |                30.48% | 1.1e-09 |       7 |
| naive-eval                              |   2170000 |      0.46 |               602.22% |                 0.00% | 3.6e-10 |       8 |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+

The above result formatted in Benchmark.pm style:


            

              
              
           Rate   T:T     e     b     n 
 T:T   310000/s    --  -69%  -81%  -85% 
 e    1000000/s  223%    --  -40%  -54% 
 b    1700000/s  438%   66%    --  -23% 
 n    2170000/s  602%  117%   30%    -- 
Legends:
  T:T: participant=Try::Tiny
  b: participant=builtin-try
  e: participant=eval-localize-die-signal-and-eval-error
  n: participant=naive-eval

The above result presented as chart:

#IMAGE: share/images/bencher-result-1.png|/tmp/VHOUgvh_oa/bencher-result-1.png

Result formatted as table (split, part 2 of 2):


            

              
              
#table2#
{dataset=>"empty try, empty catch"}
+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+
| participant                             | rate (/s) | time (μs) | pct_faster_vs_slowest | pct_slower_vs_fastest |  errors | samples |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+
| Try::Tiny                               |    397000 |      2.52 |                 0.00% |              6147.90% | 5.8e-10 |       8 |
| eval-localize-die-signal-and-eval-error |   1700000 |      0.59 |               328.63% |              1357.65% | 6.5e-10 |       7 |
| builtin-try                             |   8400000 |      0.12 |              2022.06% |               194.43% | 1.9e-10 |       7 |
| naive-eval                              |  25000000 |      0.04 |              6147.90% |                 0.00% |   8e-11 |       7 |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+

The above result formatted in Benchmark.pm style:


            

              
              
            Rate    T:T      e     b     n 
 T:T    397000/s     --   -76%  -95%  -98% 
 e     1700000/s   327%     --  -79%  -93% 
 b     8400000/s  2000%   391%    --  -66% 
 n    25000000/s  6200%  1374%  200%    -- 
Legends:
  T:T: participant=Try::Tiny
  b: participant=builtin-try
  e: participant=eval-localize-die-signal-and-eval-error
  n: participant=naive-eval

The above result presented as chart:

#IMAGE: share/images/bencher-result-2.png|/tmp/VHOUgvh_oa/bencher-result-2.png

Sample benchmark #2

Benchmark command (benchmarking module startup overhead):


            

              
              
% bencher -m ExceptionHandling --module-startup

Result formatted as table:


            

              
              
#table3#
+---------------------+-----------+-------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+
| participant         | time (ms) | mod_overhead_time | pct_faster_vs_slowest | pct_slower_vs_fastest |  errors | samples |
+---------------------+-----------+-------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+
| Try::Tiny           |      14   |               8.4 |                 0.00% |               145.39% | 1.8e-05 |       7 |
| perl -e1 (baseline) |       5.6 |               0   |               145.39% |                 0.00% | 1.6e-05 |       7 |
+---------------------+-----------+-------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+

The above result formatted in Benchmark.pm style:


            

              
              
                         Rate   T:T  perl -e1 (baseline) 
 T:T                   71.4/s    --                 -60% 
 perl -e1 (baseline)  178.6/s  150%                   -- 
Legends:
  T:T: mod_overhead_time=8.4 participant=Try::Tiny
  perl -e1 (baseline): mod_overhead_time=0 participant=perl -e1 (baseline)

The above result presented as chart:

#IMAGE: share/images/bencher-result-3.png|/tmp/VHOUgvh_oa/bencher-result-3.png

To display as an interactive HTML table on a browser, you can add option --format html+datatables.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Bencher-Scenario-ExceptionHandling.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Bencher-Scenario-ExceptionHandling.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:


            

              
              
% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2024 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Bencher-Scenario-ExceptionHandling

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.