bitcoin/doc/benchmarking.md

Benchmarking

Bitcoin Core has an internal benchmarking framework, with benchmarks for cryptographic algorithms such as SHA1, SHA256, SHA512 and RIPEMD160. As well as the rolling bloom filter.

Running

After compiling bitcoin-core, the benchmarks can be run with:

src/bench/bench_bitcoin

The output will look similar to:

# Benchmark, evals, iterations, total, min, max, median
Base58CheckEncode, 5, 320000, 120.772, 7.49351e-05, 7.59374e-05, 7.54759e-05
Base58Decode, 5, 800000, 122.833, 3.0467e-05, 3.11732e-05, 3.06304e-05
Base58Encode, 5, 470000, 137.094, 5.81061e-05, 5.85109e-05, 5.84462e-05
BenchLockedPool, 5, 530, 34.2023, 0.0128247, 0.0129613, 0.0129026
CCheckQueueSpeedPrevectorJob, 5, 1400, 26.1762, 0.00365048, 0.00388629, 0.00367108
CCoinsCaching, 5, 170000, 48.1074, 5.60229e-05, 5.72316e-05, 5.66214e-05
CoinSelection, 5, 650, 34.6426, 0.0105801, 0.0107699, 0.010664
DeserializeAndCheckBlockTest, 5, 160, 39.2084, 0.0483662, 0.0494199, 0.0490138
DeserializeBlockTest, 5, 130, 23.8129, 0.0357731, 0.0373763, 0.0365858
FastRandom_1bit, 5, 440000000, 38.1609, 1.72974e-08, 1.73882e-08, 1.73478e-08
FastRandom_32bit, 5, 110000000, 72.8237, 1.29992e-07, 1.37014e-07, 1.30115e-07
MempoolEviction, 5, 41000, 89.8883, 0.000432748, 0.000446857, 0.000438483
PrevectorClear, 5, 5600, 47.9229, 0.00169952, 0.0017455, 0.00170315
PrevectorDestructor, 5, 5700, 44.5498, 0.0015561, 0.00156977, 0.00156469
RIPEMD160, 5, 440, 135.988, 0.0615496, 0.062268, 0.0617779
RollingBloom, 5, 1500000, 36.5109, 4.80961e-06, 4.97463e-06, 4.85811e-06
SHA1, 5, 570, 51.808, 0.018065, 0.0182623, 0.0181865
SHA256, 5, 340, 8.31841, 0.00483231, 0.00499803, 0.00485486
SHA256_32b, 5, 4700000, 10.469, 4.43441e-07, 4.47611e-07, 4.45223e-07
SHA512, 5, 330, 33.3408, 0.02017, 0.0202554, 0.0201921
SipHash_32b, 5, 40000000, 38.7088, 1.91103e-07, 1.96998e-07, 1.93792e-07
Sleep100ms, 5, 10, 5.01062, 0.100131, 0.100368, 0.100147
Trig, 5, 12000000, 5.95494, 9.78115e-08, 1.04354e-07, 9.80682e-08
VerifyScriptBench, 5, 6300, 9.02493, 0.000285566, 0.000288433, 0.000286175

Help

-? will print a list of options and exit:

src/bench/bench_bitcoin -?

Notes

More benchmarks are needed for, in no particular order:

• Script Validation
• CCoinDBView caching
• Coins database
• Memory pool
• Wallet coin selection