This (ab)uses the integration tests to run a benchmark. This currently only
measures wibox drawing performance. To avoid wasting CPU-cycles, this does only
a quick run under travis while on "normal" runs the function under test is
executed in a loop to improve the precision of the measurement.
This benchmarks hopefully allow to optimize things in a clear fashion instead of
things like "it feels faster to me".
Results when run against the previous commit:
== Running test-benchmark.lua ==
create wibox: 0.0788958 sec/iter ( 13 iters, 1.103 sec for benchmark)
update textclock: 0.019493 sec/iter ( 56 iters, 2.507 sec for benchmark)
relayout textclock: 0.0160725 sec/iter ( 63 iters, 1.029 sec for benchmark)
redraw textclock: 0.0015601 sec/iter (647 iters, 1.875 sec for benchmark)
W: awesome: a_glib_poll:291: Last main loop iteration took 6.593912 seconds! Increasing limit for this warning to that value.
Results right before the new widget layouts were merged (commit 52154d0f15):
== Running test-benchmark.lua ==
create wibox: 0.0782874 sec/iter ( 13 iters, 1.095 sec for benchmark)
update textclock: 0.00736755 sec/iter (136 iters, 1.346 sec for benchmark)
W: awesome: luaA_dofunction:77: error while running function
[...]
error: /home/psychon/projects/awesome/build/lib/gears/object.lua:30: Trying to emit non-existent signal 'widget::layout_changed'
Closes https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/451.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Uli Schlachter