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Performance benchmarking improvements
As discussed offline, we think there are a few improvements we could make in how we do performance benchmarks for H3:
- use some standard benchmarking framework instead of rolling our own (which is what we currently do)
- a framework could provide nice features like warm-ups, advanced stats (min vs avg), etc.
- what options currently exist for C?
- standardize the benchmark format to make it more machine-readable (like in Go), which would make it easier to automatically compare timings between diffs
- avoid doing benchmarks on laptops and/or finding a dedicated benchmarking machine
- random (but deterministic) inputs for improved input coverage
- benchmark performance tracking/plotting over the timeline of diffs, like what is done in Python using
asv
for libraries likenumpy
For context, this issue came up after seeing a lot of variance in the benchmarks I was running on my laptop for https://github.com/uber/h3/pull/496
Some overlap with #530