README.md

# Glychee

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A simple gleam benchmark runner which wraps
<https://github.com/bencheeorg/benchee>.

## Quick start

_Notice: Requires at least gleam 0.24 (or gleam 0.0.0-nightly-221019 or later)._

Also requires elixir and hex to be installed. You might be required to run
`mix local.hex` after installing elixir.

1. Add glychee to your project: `gleam add glychee`.
2. Create a a custom benchmarking module that contains a `main`-function.
   See `glychee_example_benchmark_module.gleam` as an example.
   In that module you will define which `Function`s to benchmark with one or
   many `Data`.
3. Run the benchmark. `bin/glychee_example_benchmark_call.sh` in this
   library's source shows an example on how do do it:

### Example

If you do not have a gleam project yet, create it with:

```sh
gleam new foobar
cd foobar
```

In your project create a file named `src/benchmark.gleam` with following
contents:

```gleam
if erlang {
  import glychee/benchmark
  import gleam/list
  import gleam/int

  pub fn main() {
    benchmark.run(
      [
        benchmark.Function(
          label: "list.sort()",
          fun: fn(test_data) {
            fn() {
              list.sort(test_data, int.compare)
            }
          },
        ),
      ],
      [
        benchmark.Data(
          label: "pre-sorted list",
          data: list.range(1, 100_000),
        ),
        benchmark.Data(
          label: "reversed list",
          data: list.range(1, 100_000)
          |> list.reverse,
        ),
      ],
    )
  }
}
```

Then run via:

```sh
gleam clean && \
gleam build && \
erl -pa ./build/dev/erlang/*/ebin -noshell -eval 'gleam@@main:run(benchmark)'
```

Now you can alter the functions and data specified in above's example to
whichever function of your application or library you want to benchmark.

Note that you can benchmark multiple functions with different data sets
in one go.

## Installation

If available on Hex this package can be added to your Gleam project:

```sh
gleam add glychee
```

Glychee's documentation can be found at <https://hexdocs.pm/glychee>.

## License

Apache 2.0