hyperfine

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

Usage:

> hyperfine 'sleep 0.3' 'sleep 1.7'

Features

• Statistical analysis across multiple runs
• Support for arbitrary shell commands
• Visual indication of the benchmark progress
• Warmup runs that are executed before the actual benchmark

Installation

cargo install 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.