Sub-microsecond benchmarks are dominated by the ~60ns per-iteration
valgrind start/stop cost in CodSpeed simulation mode. Add kInnerIterations
(1000) inner loops to all fast benchmarks so the actual work dominates.
Move DoNotOptimize calls outside inner loops to prevent artificial overhead.
Also address review feedback:
- Use tokenless CodSpeed (public repo, no CODSPEED_TOKEN needed)
- Fix warning message to show component-specific path
- Fix stray ". :" in error message
- Verify pinned SHA on re-runs to prevent stale checkouts
- Use CodSpeed's codspeed-cpp fork with proper instrumentation for
simulation mode benchmark detection
- setup_codspeed_lib.py creates a flat PlatformIO-compatible library
by combining google_benchmark sources, codspeed core, and
instrument-hooks into a single library directory
- Renames .cc to .cpp (PlatformIO doesn't compile .cc by default)
- Adds all required defines: CODSPEED_ENABLED, CODSPEED_SIMULATION,
CODSPEED_VERSION, CODSPEED_ROOT_DIR, CODSPEED_MODE_DISPLAY
- Output JSON config consumed by cpp_benchmark.py via env var
- Clone CodSpeed's codspeed-cpp repo (pinned to SHA) in CI
- Create PlatformIO-compatible library.json combining google_benchmark
and codspeed core sources for proper instrumentation
- Pass library path via BENCHMARK_LIB env var to cpp_benchmark.py
- Use simulation mode for reproducible CPU instruction counting
- Locally, vanilla google/benchmark is used (no CodSpeed instrumentation)
- Move scheduler/loop/helpers benchmarks to tests/benchmarks/components/core/
- Add random_float and random_uint32 benchmarks (from ol.yaml)
- Fix core pseudo-component crash: skip components where get_component()
returns None when adding dependencies to config
- Use CodSpeed simulation mode (CPU instruction counting) for reproducible
CI results instead of walltime
- Add should_run_benchmarks() to determine-jobs.py that checks if
directly changed components have benchmark files (no dependency
expansion - changing sensor won't trigger api benchmarks)
- Move benchmark job from separate workflow into ci.yml
- Pin CodSpeed action to full commit SHA
- Delete separate ci-benchmarks.yml
Add automated benchmarks using Google Benchmark to prevent performance
regressions in the API protobuf encoding/decoding and core loop paths.
Benchmarks cover:
- Protobuf encode: SensorState, BinarySensorState, HelloResponse,
LightState, DeviceInfoResponse (20 nested devices + 20 areas)
- Protobuf decode: HelloRequest, SwitchCommand, LightCommand
- Protobuf calculate_size and full calc+encode send path
- Varint parse/encode/size for various value ranges
- Scheduler call/next_schedule_in with idle and active timers
- Application loop component dispatch and blocking guard overhead
Infrastructure:
- Extract shared build logic from cpp_unit_test.py into test_helpers.py
- Add cpp_benchmark.py mirroring the unit test build pattern
- Support benchmark.yaml per component dir for declaring dependencies
- Add CodSpeed CI workflow triggered on api/core changes
- Fix ProtoMessage protected destructor on host platform
J. Nick Koston