The module works with PowerShell version 2 and up.
I use Measure-Object to collect data about the processed script blocks, and apparently there is quite a bit of overhead involved in this, so if the measured commands take about 1.1 seconds with 10,000 iterations, you might find the benchmark script itself to take maybe 12 seconds, as in one of my test cases. The overhead seems to increase fast with the number of iterations. I tried rolling my own algorithm instead of using Measure-Object, but failed miserably at improving the performance.If you prefer to have it as a function in your profile rather than a module, simply copy and paste the entire content of the .psm1 file into your PowerShell profile (external Microsoft site link). You can also dot-source the script file containing the Measure-These function on demand when you need it, but you need to rename the file to have a .ps1 extension as modules pop up in notepad (for "security" reasons) when dot-sourced:
Dot-sourcing it on demand:
PS C:\> copy .\Benchmark.psm1 Benchmark.ps1 PS C:\> . .\Benchmark.ps1 PS C:\> Get-Help Measure-These
It's based on Measure-Command, which works like this:
PS E:\> Measure-Command { dir -r e:\temp } | Select -ExpandProperty TotalMilliseconds
223,0757
PS E:\> Measure-Command { dir -r e:\temp }
Days : 0
Hours : 0
Minutes : 0
Seconds : 0
Milliseconds : 51
Ticks : 512956
TotalDays : 5,93699074074074E-07
TotalHours : 1,42487777777778E-05
TotalMinutes : 0,000854926666666667
TotalSeconds : 0,0512956
TotalMilliseconds : 51,2956
*File history:
Benchmark.zip.
Install-Module -Name Benchmark -Scope CurrentUser*''2017-12-02'': Uploaded v1.2.2. Minor doc fixes. Make $Precision a Byte. Use [CmdletBinding()] and add scaffolding.
Let's see how accurate Start-Sleep and the measurement is. Not too bad.
PS C:\> Import-Module Benchmark
PS C:\> Measure-These -Count 5 -ScriptBlock { sleep 1 }, { sleep 2 }, { sleep 5 }
-Title '1 second', '2 seconds', '5 seconds' | Format-Table -AutoSize
Title/no. Average (ms) Count Sum (ms) Maximum (ms) Minimum (ms)
--------- ------------ ----- -------- ------------ ------------
1 second 1,000.06218 5 5,000.31090 1,002.43900 999.41950
2 seconds 1,999.58470 5 9,997.92350 1,999.66930 1,999.53590
5 seconds 4,999.75984 5 24,998.79920 4,999.95170 4,999.67560
Compare some methods of determining if a string is contained within another string. 50,000 iterations. This time around on PSv4, where they appear to have made some optimizations to "-like".
PS C:\temp> $String = 'some target string'
PS C:\temp> Measure-These -Count 50000 -ScriptBlock { $String -match 'target' }, { $String.Contains('target') },
{ $String -like '*target*' } -Title '-match', '.contains()', '-like' | ft -auto
Title/no. Average (ms) Count Sum (ms) Maximum (ms) Minimum (ms)
--------- ------------ ----- -------- ------------ ------------
-match 0.03024 50000 1,512.10510 2.80810 0.02630
.contains() 0.02386 50000 1,192.81570 6.16960 0.01950
-like 0.02893 50000 1,446.25670 2.93130 0.02380
Default output with Format-List.
PS C:\> Measure-These -Count 1 { sleep 3 }
Title/no. : 1
Average (ms) : 3,000.46310
Count : 1
Sum (ms) : 3,000.46310
Maximum (ms) : 3,000.46310
Minimum (ms) : 3,000.46310
PS C:\>
Assigning the resulting object to a variable.
PS C:\> $TimedSleep = Measure-These -Count 1 { sleep 3 }
PS C:\> $TimedSleep
Title/no. : 1
Average (ms) : 2,999.98120
Count : 1
Sum (ms) : 2,999.98120
Maximum (ms) : 2,999.98120
Minimum (ms) : 2,999.98120
function Measure-These {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Svendsen Tech's Benchmarking Module for PowerShell.
Benchmark PowerShell script blocks and (virtually) any "DOS"/cmd.exe command
using this module built around PowerShell's Measure-Command cmdlet. It is designed
to give a quick, convenient overview of how code performs when doing for instance
the same thing in different ways.
See the comprehensive online documentation at:
http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/PowerShell_benchmarking_module_built_around_Measure-Command.php
MIT license.
.DESCRIPTION
This is a benchmarking module for PowerShell. Get objects containing data about
the execution time of script blocks. Pipe to Format-Table -AutoSize
for a direct report. You can also assign the resulting objects to a variable (do not
use Format-Table if assigning to a variable).
See the comprehensive online documentation at:
http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/PowerShell_benchmarking_module_built_around_Measure-Command.php
Copyright (c) 2012-2017, Joakim Borger Svendsen.
All rights reserved.
Author: Joakim Borger Svendsen
MIT license.
.PARAMETER Count
Number of times to execute the code in each specified script block. Pass in
multiple counts separated by commas.
.PARAMETER ScriptBlock
Script block(s) to time the execution time of and collect data about.
.PARAMETER Title
Optional titles for each script block. Title 1 goes with block 1,
2 with 2, and so on. If you omit titles, you will get numbered
script blocks (from left to right). If you have fewer titles than
script blocks, you will get numbers when you "run out of titles".
.PARAMETER Precision
Specify number of digits after the decimal separator. Default 5. Maximum 15.
Trailing zeroes are removed by the [Math]::Round() static function.
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] [Int32[]] $Count,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] [ScriptBlock[]] $ScriptBlock,
[String[]] $Title = @(''),
[ValidateRange(1, 15)][Byte] $Precision = 5)
begin {
}
process {
$Times = @()
$BlockNumber = 0
foreach ($LoopCount in $Count) {
$ScriptBlock | ForEach-Object {
$Block = $_
$BlockNumber++
$Times += 1..$LoopCount | ForEach-Object {
Measure-Command -Expression $Block | # Process the current block once for each specified $Count.
Select-Object -ExpandProperty TotalMilliSeconds # Get only the milliseconds.
} | # End of 1..$Count ForEach-Object which will be passed to Measure-Object.
Measure-Object -Sum -Maximum -Minimum | # Gather results using Measure-Object.
ForEach-Object {
# Send results down the pipeline in the form of custom PS objects.
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
'Average (ms)' = $_.Sum / $_.Count
'Maximum (ms)' = $_.Maximum
'Minimum (ms)' = $_.Minimum
'Count' = $_.Count
'Sum (ms)' = $_.Sum
'BlockNumber' = $BlockNumber
}
}
} # End of $ScriptBlock ForEach-Object
} # End of $Count foreach loop
}
end {
# Since this is a _benchmarking_ module, it seems in the right spirit to
# cache this for a performance gain. :)
$NumBlocks = $ScriptBlock.Count
# This is used to keep track of the relative position in the block count.
# Had to script scope it or else I think it behaved sort of like a closure
# inside the Select-Object below.
$Script:Counter = 0
$Times |
Select-Object @{n='Title/no.'; e={
++$script:Counter
$Index = $script:Counter - 1
if ($script:Counter -ge $NumBlocks) {
$script:Counter = 0
}
if ($Title[$Index]) {
$Title[$Index]
}
else {
$_.BlockNumber
}
}},
@{ Name = 'Average (ms)'; Expression = { [Math]::Round($_.'Average (ms)', $Precision)} }, Count,
@{ Name = 'Sum (ms)'; Expression = { [Math]::Round($_.'Sum (ms)', $Precision) } },
@{ Name = 'Maximum (ms)'; Expression = { [Math]::Round($_.'Maximum (ms)', $Precision) } },
@{ Name = 'Minimum (ms)'; Expression = { [Math]::Round($_.'Minimum (ms)', $Precision) } }
}
}
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