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Track compile times
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Description
Problem
Compile times are something we care about, but we're not measuring them systematically, so we have little visibility over them.
Potential solution
Building the benchmarks is a fairly good analogue for real-world usage where you have a warm compiler cache.
- Run benchmark builds with
--timings. - Parse the HTML report to get total compile time for each benchmark.
- Either:
- Make a comment on a PR if they improve / regress. or
- Upload them to CodSpeed (see last para of #5).
- Bonus points: Display the graph from the timings report in a comment on any PR for which compile times get significantly better/worse.
- Loads of bonus points: Convert the graph from timings report into an
.outfile so the graph appears as a faux flamegraph on CodSpeed. That'd give you a before/after diff too. (This is probably way too much work, and not worthwhile).
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by examining how benchmark builds are run and how the --timings HTML report is produced. Review the CodSpeed option referenced in #5, then define whether the first milestone is PR comments or CodSpeed uploads; done means benchmark compile times are collected and reported for regressions or improvements.
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Assessment
- Domain
- performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100