Perl-Formance

This benchmark suite tries to run some stressful programs and outputs
values that you can compare against other runs of this suite,
e.g. with other versions of Perl, modified compile parameter, or
another set of dependent libraries.

=head1 BUGS

=head2 No invariant dependencies

This distribution only contains the programs to run the tests and
according data. It uses a lot of libs from CPAN with all their
dependencies but it does not contain invariant versions of those used
dependency libs.

That means your performance output may change just because a far away
lib that you upgraded in the meantime changes its performance.

If total invariance is important to you, you are responsible to
provide that invariant environment by yourself. You could, for
instance, create a local CPAN mirror with CPAN::Mini and never upgrade
it. Then use that mirror for all your installations of Benchmark::Perl::Formance.

On the other side the current behaviour could be used to track the
performance of your installation over time by continuously upgrading
from CPAN. I always upgrade from CPAN whatever I can; so I consider
that a feature.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Build.PL
    ./Build
    ./Build test
    ./Build install


SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc Benchmark::Perl::Formance

You can also look for information at:

    Search CPAN
        http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Formance

    CPAN Request Tracker:
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Perl-Formance

    AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation:
        http://annocpan.org/dist/Perl-Formance

    CPAN Ratings:
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Perl-Formance

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Steffen Schwigon

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