Shared benchmark format for command line and CSV outputs

.gitignore

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ valgrind_ctime_test
 *.exe
 *.so
 *.a
+*.csv
 !.gitignore
 
 Makefile

README.md

@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ To create a HTML report with coloured and annotated source code:
     $ mkdir -p coverage
     $ gcovr --exclude 'src/bench*' --html --html-details -o coverage/coverage.html
 
+Benchmark
+------------
+If configured with `--enable-benchmark` (which is the default), binaries for benchmarking the libsecp256k1 functions will be present in the root directory after the build.
+
+To print the benchmark result to the command line:
+
+    $ ./bench_name
+
+To create a CSV file for the benchmark result :
+
+    $ ./bench_name | sed '2d;s/ \{1,\}//g' > bench_name.csv
+
 Reporting a vulnerability
 ------------
 

src/bench.h

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static int64_t gettime_i64(void) {
 /* Format fixed point number. */
 void print_number(const int64_t x) {
     int64_t x_abs, y;
-    int c, i, rounding;
+    int c, i, rounding, g; /* g = integer part size, c = fractional part size */
     size_t ptr;
     char buffer[30];
 
@@ -56,21 +56,27 @@ void print_number(const int64_t x) {
     /* Format and print the number. */
     ptr = sizeof(buffer) - 1;
     buffer[ptr] = 0;
-    if (c != 0) {
+    g = 0;
+    if (c != 0) { /* non zero fractional part */
         for (i = 0; i < c; ++i) {
             buffer[--ptr] = '0' + (y % 10);
             y /= 10;
         }
-        buffer[--ptr] = '.';
+    } else if (c == 0) { /* fractional part is 0 */
+        buffer[--ptr] = '0'; 
     }
+    buffer[--ptr] = '.';
     do {
         buffer[--ptr] = '0' + (y % 10);
         y /= 10;
+        g++;
     } while (y != 0);
     if (x < 0) {
         buffer[--ptr] = '-';
+        g++;
     }
-    printf("%s", &buffer[ptr]);
+    printf("%5.*s", g, &buffer[ptr]); /* Prints integer part */
+    printf("%-*s", FP_EXP, &buffer[ptr + g]); /* Prints fractional part */
 }
 
 void run_benchmark(char *name, void (*benchmark)(void*, int), void (*setup)(void*), void (*teardown)(void*, int), void* data, int count, int iter) {
@@ -97,13 +103,14 @@ void run_benchmark(char *name, void (*benchmark)(void*, int), void (*setup)(void
         }
         sum += total;
     }
-    printf("%s: min ", name);
+    /* ',' is used as a column delimiter */
+    printf("%-30s, ", name);
     print_number(min * FP_MULT / iter);
-    printf("us / avg ");
+    printf("   , ");
     print_number(((sum * FP_MULT) / count) / iter);
-    printf("us / max ");
+    printf("   , ");
     print_number(max * FP_MULT / iter);
-    printf("us\n");
+    printf("\n");
 }
 
 int have_flag(int argc, char** argv, char *flag) {
@@ -130,4 +137,13 @@ int get_iters(int default_iters) {
     }
 }
 
+void print_output_table_header_row(void) {
+    char* bench_str = "Benchmark";     /* left justified */
+    char* min_str = "    Min(us)    "; /* center alignment */
+    char* avg_str = "    Avg(us)    ";
+    char* max_str = "    Max(us)    ";
+    printf("%-30s,%-15s,%-15s,%-15s\n", bench_str, min_str, avg_str, max_str);
+    printf("\n");
+}
+
 #endif /* SECP256K1_BENCH_H */

src/bench_ecdh.c

@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ int main(void) {
     /* create a context with no capabilities */
     data.ctx = secp256k1_context_create(SECP256K1_FLAGS_TYPE_CONTEXT);
 
+    print_output_table_header_row();
+
     run_benchmark("ecdh", bench_ecdh, bench_ecdh_setup, NULL, &data, 10, iters);
 
     secp256k1_context_destroy(data.ctx);

src/bench_ecmult.c

@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     secp256k1_ge_set_all_gej_var(data.pubkeys, data.pubkeys_gej, POINTS);
 
 
+    print_output_table_header_row();
     /* Initialize offset1 and offset2 */
     hash_into_offset(&data, 0);
     run_ecmult_bench(&data, iters);

src/bench_internal.c

@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ void bench_context_sign(void* arg, int iters) {
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     bench_inv data;
     int iters = get_iters(20000);
+    print_output_table_header_row();
 
     if (have_flag(argc, argv, "scalar") || have_flag(argc, argv, "add")) run_benchmark("scalar_add", bench_scalar_add, bench_setup, NULL, &data, 10, iters*100);
     if (have_flag(argc, argv, "scalar") || have_flag(argc, argv, "negate")) run_benchmark("scalar_negate", bench_scalar_negate, bench_setup, NULL, &data, 10, iters*100);

src/bench_recover.c

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ int main(void) {
 
     data.ctx = secp256k1_context_create(SECP256K1_CONTEXT_VERIFY);
 
+    print_output_table_header_row();
+
     run_benchmark("ecdsa_recover", bench_recover, bench_recover_setup, NULL, &data, 10, iters);
 
     secp256k1_context_destroy(data.ctx);

src/bench_schnorrsig.c

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ int main(void) {
         CHECK(secp256k1_xonly_pubkey_serialize(data.ctx, pk_char, &pk) == 1);
     }
 
+    print_output_table_header_row();
     run_benchmark("schnorrsig_sign", bench_schnorrsig_sign, NULL, NULL, (void *) &data, 10, iters);
     run_benchmark("schnorrsig_verify", bench_schnorrsig_verify, NULL, NULL, (void *) &data, 10, iters);
 

src/bench_sign.c

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ int main(void) {
 
     data.ctx = secp256k1_context_create(SECP256K1_CONTEXT_SIGN);
 
+    print_output_table_header_row();
+
     run_benchmark("ecdsa_sign", bench_sign_run, bench_sign_setup, NULL, &data, 10, iters);
 
     secp256k1_context_destroy(data.ctx);

src/bench_verify.c

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ int main(void) {
     data.pubkeylen = 33;
     CHECK(secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize(data.ctx, data.pubkey, &data.pubkeylen, &pubkey, SECP256K1_EC_COMPRESSED) == 1);
 
+    print_output_table_header_row();
     run_benchmark("ecdsa_verify", bench_verify, NULL, NULL, &data, 10, iters);
 #ifdef ENABLE_OPENSSL_TESTS
     data.ec_group = EC_GROUP_new_by_curve_name(NID_secp256k1);