The Python pyperf module is a toolkit to write, run and analyze benchmarks.

• Simple API to run reliable benchmarks
• Automatically calibrate a benchmark for a time budget.
• Spawn multiple worker processes.
• Compute the mean and standard deviation.
• Detect if a benchmark result seems unstable.
• JSON format to store benchmark results.
• Support multiple units: seconds, bytes and integer.

To run a benchmark use the pyperf timeit command (result written into bench.json):

$ python3 -m pyperf timeit '[1,2]*1000' -o bench.json
.....................
Mean +- std dev: 4.22 us +- 0.08 us

Or write a benchmark script bench.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pyperf

runner = pyperf.Runner()
runner.timeit(name="sort a sorted list",
              stmt="sorted(s, key=f)",
              setup="f = lambda x: x; s = list(range(1000))")

See the API docs for full details on the timeit function and the Runner class. To run the script and dump the results into a file named bench.json:

$ python3 bench.py -o bench.json

To analyze benchmark results use the pyperf stats command:

$ python3 -m pyperf stats telco.json
Total duration: 29.2 sec
Start date: 2016-10-21 03:14:19
End date: 2016-10-21 03:14:53
Raw value minimum: 177 ms
Raw value maximum: 183 ms

Number of calibration run: 1
Number of run with values: 40
Total number of run: 41

Number of warmup per run: 1
Number of value per run: 3
Loop iterations per value: 8
Total number of values: 120

Minimum:         22.1 ms
Median +- MAD:   22.5 ms +- 0.1 ms
Mean +- std dev: 22.5 ms +- 0.2 ms
Maximum:         22.9 ms

  0th percentile: 22.1 ms (-2% of the mean) -- minimum
  5th percentile: 22.3 ms (-1% of the mean)
 25th percentile: 22.4 ms (-1% of the mean) -- Q1
 50th percentile: 22.5 ms (-0% of the mean) -- median
 75th percentile: 22.7 ms (+1% of the mean) -- Q3
 95th percentile: 22.9 ms (+2% of the mean)
100th percentile: 22.9 ms (+2% of the mean) -- maximum

Number of outlier (out of 22.0 ms..23.0 ms): 0

There's also:

• pyperf compare_to command tests if a difference is significant. It supports comparison between multiple benchmark suites (made of multiple benchmarks)

  $ python3 -m pyperf compare_to --table mult_list_py36.json mult_list_py37.json mult_list_py38.json
  +----------------+----------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
  | Benchmark      | mult_list_py36 | mult_list_py37        | mult_list_py38        |
  +================+================+=======================+=======================+
  | [1]*1000       | 2.13 us        | 2.09 us: 1.02x faster | not significant       |
  +----------------+----------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
  | [1,2]*1000     | 3.70 us        | 5.28 us: 1.42x slower | 3.18 us: 1.16x faster |
  +----------------+----------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
  | [1,2,3]*1000   | 4.61 us        | 6.05 us: 1.31x slower | 4.17 us: 1.11x faster |
  +----------------+----------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
  | Geometric mean | (ref)          | 1.22x slower          | 1.09x faster          |
  +----------------+----------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
  

• pyperf system tune command to tune your system to run stable benchmarks.

• Automatically collect metadata on the computer and the benchmark: use the pyperf metadata command to display them, or the pyperf collect_metadata command to manually collect them.

• --track-memory and --tracemalloc options to track the memory usage of a benchmark.

• pyperf documentation
• pyperf project homepage at GitHub (code, bugs)
• Download latest pyperf release at the Python Cheeseshop (PyPI)

Install pyperf:

python3 -m pip install pyperf

pyperf is distributed under the MIT license.

The pyperf project is covered by the PSF Code of Conduct.