hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool (inspired by bench).

> hyperfine [OPTIONS] <command>...

Demo: Benchmarking fd and find:

Features

• Statistical analysis across multiple runs
• Support for arbitrary shell commands
• Constant feedback about the benchmark progress and current estimates
• Warmup runs can be executed before the actual benchmark

Installation

Hyperfine can be installed via cargo:

cargo install hyperfine

Arch Linux

On Arch Linux, hyperfine can be installed from the AUR:

yaourt -S hyperfine

Origin of the name

The name hyperfine was chosen in reference to the hyperfine levels of caesium 133 which play a crucial role in the definition of our base unit of time — the second.