Running benchmarks

[dahankzter]

Is it possible to do it as it stands now? It would be very neat to just be able to go something like this:

looper -bench

or maybe

looper -args="-bench .pattern."

[nathany]

Not at the moment, no.

[dahankzter]

Looper is convenient but unless I missunderstood its capabilities it is a bit too constrained. Is it easy to add? Can you point me where it might go if I get the time to add it?

[nathany]

You're right, it's quite limited in its capabilities. I still haven't figured out a good way to make it extensible... there are some alternatives that are, but I've yet to take a look at how they do it.

[nathany]

Do you always want to run benchmarks? I'm not sure about a command line option. Looper as it's own prompt, so it could support toggling benchmarking.

[dahankzter]

No not always. A flag -bench to also add benchmarking perhaps? I don't think it is good to disable normal tests but rather the flag can mean "also run benchmarks if tests are not failing".