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20 
21 /*
22  * IMPORTANT: This header file describes INTERNAL interfaces to libdispatch
23  * which are subject to change in future releases of Mac OS X. Any applications
24  * relying on these interfaces WILL break.
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26 
27 #ifndef __DISPATCH_BENCHMARK__
28 #define __DISPATCH_BENCHMARK__
29 
30 #ifndef __DISPATCH_INDIRECT__
31 #error "Please #include <dispatch/private.h> instead of this file directly."
32 #include <dispatch/base.h> // for HeaderDoc
33 #endif
34 
35 __BEGIN_DECLS
36 
37 /*!
38  * @function dispatch_benchmark
39  *
40  * @abstract
41  * Count the average number of cycles a given block takes to execute.
42  *
43  * @param count
44  * The number of times to serially execute the given block.
45  *
46  * @param block
47  * The block to execute.
48  *
49  * @result
50  * The approximate number of cycles the block takes to execute.
51  *
52  * @discussion
53  * This function is for debugging and performance analysis work. For the best
54  * results, pass a high count value to dispatch_benchmark(). When benchmarking
55  * concurrent code, please compare the serial version of the code against the
56  * concurrent version, and compare the concurrent version on different classes
57  * of hardware. Please look for inflection points with various data sets and
58  * keep the following facts in mind:
59  *
60  * 1) Code bound by computational bandwidth may be inferred by proportional
61  *    changes in performance as concurrency is increased.
62  * 2) Code bound by memory bandwidth may be inferred by negligible changes in
63  *    performance as concurrency is increased.
64  * 3) Code bound by critical sections may be inferred by retrograde changes in
65  *    performance as concurrency is increased.
66  * 3a) Intentional: locks, mutexes, and condition variables.
67  * 3b) Accidental: unrelated and frequently modified data on the same
68  *     cache-line.
69  */
70 #ifdef __BLOCKS__
71 __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6,__IPHONE_4_0)
72 DISPATCH_EXPORT DISPATCH_NONNULL2 DISPATCH_NOTHROW
73 uint64_t
74 dispatch_benchmark(size_t count, void (^block)(void));
75 #endif
76 
77 __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6,__IPHONE_4_0)
78 DISPATCH_EXPORT DISPATCH_NONNULL3 DISPATCH_NOTHROW
79 uint64_t
80 dispatch_benchmark_f(size_t count, void *ctxt, void (*func)(void *));
81 
82 __END_DECLS
83 
84 #endif
85