get_git_version CMake function uses 'git' command directly, instead of
GIT_EXECUTABLE variable. This causes CMake errors while generating
project files in environments, where 'git' command is not present
in PATH.
This patch adopts a new internal structure for how timings are performed.
Currently every iteration of a benchmark checks to see if it has been running
for an appropriate amount of time. Checking the clock introduces noise into
the timings and this can cause inconsistent output from each benchmark.
Now every iteration of a benchmark only checks an iteration count to see if it
should stop running. The iteration count is determined before hand by testing
the benchmark on a series of increasing iteration counts until a suitable count
is found. This increases the amount of time it takes to run the actual benchmarks
but it also greatly increases the accuracy of the results.
This patch introduces some breaking changes. The notable breaking changes are:
1. Benchmarks run on multiple threads no generate a report per thread. Instead
only a single report is generated.
2. ::benchmark::UseRealTime() was removed and replaced with State::UseRealTime().
libstdc++'s std::regex has (or had) a bug in std::regex::operator=(...) that
caused undefined behaviour. Clang will detect this and compile the function so
that it crashes at runtime. This patch tried to detect that bug during
configuration.
Alastair Murray