Hyperfine
Dev tools
benchmarking cli
SHOW HN2018
126points
19comments
#333of 2,155 in 2018
Top 16%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Docs: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful for analysing multiple runs
From 1 comment
Nice, that looks very handy especially the analysis of multiple runs. Just today I was playing with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, I'd never used it before, it makes a massive…
anfractuosity on HN
Objections
Timing alone is not an effective benchmark without understanding what the program does
From 1 comment
Nifty! Step up over just using time. Unfortunately, timing things in general isn't going to be a very effective benchmark. Without understanding what a program is doing, you…
cthalupa on HN
Requests
Interleave execution of multiple commands
From 1 comment
When given multiple commands, can it interleave executions instead of benchmarking them one after the other? This would be useful when comparing two similar commands, as…
CyberShadow on HN
Non-TTY/no-color mode for CI
From 1 comment
This looks excellent. Does it have a non-TTY/no—color mode that I could use in a CI environment?
jitl on HN
Measure metrics beyond time, such as dtrace-based
From 1 comment
Looks cool! Could it use dtrace to measure other metrics besides time?
peterhajas on HN
Questions
Use case for command line benchmarking
From 1 comment
What is a use case for command line benchmarking?
sushido on HN
Alternatives named
time
From 1 comment
Nifty! Step up over just using time. Unfortunately, timing things in general isn't going to be a very effective benchmark. Without understanding what a program is doing, you…
cthalupa on HN
dtrace
From 1 comment
Looks cool! Could it use dtrace to measure other metrics besides time?
peterhajas on HN
rt-tests
From 1 comment
Tangentially related, look into rt-tests (from linux-rt) for scheduler latency tests. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Realtime_kernel The effect of the linux-rt…
snvzz on HN