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Rust example for benchmarking with cargo bench

• Workflow for this example
• Action log of this example
• Benchmark results on GitHub pages

This directory shows how to use github-action-benchmark with cargo bench.

Run benchmarks

Official documentation for usage of cargo bench:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/unstable-book/library-features/test.html

e.g.

- name: Run benchmark
  run: cargo +nightly bench | tee output.txt

Note that cargo bench is available only with nightly toolchain.

Note that this example does not use LTO for benchmarking because entire code in benchmark iteration will be removed as dead code. For normal use case, please enable it in Cargo.toml for production performance.

[profile.bench]
lto = true

Process benchmark results

Store the benchmark results with step using the action. Please set cargo to tool input.

- name: Store benchmark result
  uses: benchmark-action/github-action-benchmark@v1
  with:
    tool: 'cargo'
    output-file-path: output.txt

Please read 'How to use' section for common usage.

Rust example for benchmarking with cargo-criterion

In the previous section, both regular and criterion-rs can be used through the regular cargo bench facility, but there's an additional crate and cargo extension named cargo-criterion.

The improvements in cargo-criterion do match the goals of github-action-benchmark, so it makes sense to include support for it.

Run benchmarks

Official documentation for usage of cargo criterion:

https://bheisler.github.io/criterion.rs/book/cargo_criterion/cargo_criterion.html

.e.g:

- name: Run benchmarks 
  run: cargo criterion 1> output.json

If you have a group of benchmarks, cargo criterion will output a ndJSON.

Process benchmarks results

There are two notable differences in cargo-criterion:

1. Since the output is machine-readable JSON, the extract process only parses the result file and maps the required data into github-action-benchmark plotting system. In fact, cargo-criterion only supports JSON as message-format (output format).
2. cargo-criterion incorporates its own HTML benchmark reports system, which can be stored alongside if desired through the native-benchmark-data-dir-path.

- name: Store benchmark result
  uses: benchmark-action/github-action-benchmark@v1
  with:
    tool: 'cargo-criterion'
    output-file-path: output.json
    native-benchmark-data-dir-path: target/criterion

The native benchmark reports is simply copied from target/criterion/reports and pushed to the github results repo so that they are available under:

https://YOUR_ORG.github.io/YOUR_REPO/dev/bench/native/criterion/reports/