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().
This patch cleans up our use of generic macros and also merges changes in the
build system.
It adds options -DBENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING and -DBENCHMARK_ENABLE_SHARED.
This patch automatically versions the shared libraries from any annotated `git`
tags:
```
git tag -a v1.0.0
```
It expects semver version tags such as `v1.0.0`. It would be trivial to support
`1.0.0` but looking around it seems that most C/C++ projects follow `vX.X.X`
rather that `X.X.X` like a lot of `Node.js` stuff.
This determines that the if the project has had a certain amount of commits
since the last tag and also if the project is _dirty_ (has modified files), but
does __nothing__ with that information. In the future a more robust release
could be implemented in the script.
This is pretty brittle and has little in the way of configuration. Ideally we
should use `find_program` to work out where `git` is so that users can configure
it. This implementation assumes that `git` will be available in `PATH`
Outputs the following on the command line:
```
-- git Version: v[MAJOR].[MINOR].[PATCH]-[COMMITS_SINCE_TAG]-[SHA1](-dirty)?
-- Version: [MAJOR].[MINOR].[PATCH]
```
Benchmark library builds and runs but only single-threaded. Multithreaded
support needs a bit more love.
Currently requires some C++11 support (g++ 4.6.3 seems to work).
Eric Fiselier