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1Benchmarking
2============
3
4Bitcoin Core has an internal benchmarking framework, with benchmarks
5for cryptographic algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, RIPEMD160, Poly1305, ChaCha20), rolling bloom filter, coins selection,
6thread queue, wallet balance.
7
8Running
9---------------------
10
11For benchmarking, you only need to compile `bench_bitcoin`.  The bench runner
12warns if you configure with `-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug`, but consider if building without
13it will impact the benchmark(s) you are interested in by unlatching log printers
14and lock analysis.
15
16    cmake -B build -DBUILD_BENCH=ON
17    cmake --build build -t bench_bitcoin
18
19After compiling bitcoin-core, the benchmarks can be run with:
20
21    build/bin/bench_bitcoin
22
23The output will look similar to:
24```
25|               ns/op |                op/s |    err% |     total | benchmark
26|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
27|       57,927,463.00 |               17.26 |    3.6% |      0.66 | `AddrManAdd`
28|          677,816.00 |            1,475.33 |    4.9% |      0.01 | `AddrManGetAddr`
29
30...
31
32|             ns/byte |              byte/s |    err% |     total | benchmark
33|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
34|              127.32 |        7,854,302.69 |    0.3% |      0.00 | `Base58CheckEncode`
35|               31.95 |       31,303,226.99 |    0.2% |      0.00 | `Base58Decode`
36
37...
38```
39
40Help
41---------------------
42
43    build/bin/bench_bitcoin -h
44
45To print the various options, like listing the benchmarks without running them
46or using a regex filter to only run certain benchmarks.
47
48Notes
49---------------------
50
51Benchmarks help with monitoring for performance regressions and can act as a
52scope for future performance improvements. They should cover components that
53impact performance critical functions of the system. Functions are performance
54critical if their performance impacts users and the cost associated with a
55degradation in performance is high. A non-exhaustive list:
56
57- Initial block download (Cost: slow IBD results in full node operation being
58  less accessible)
59- Block template creation (Cost: slow block template creation may result in
60  lower fee revenue for miners)
61- Block propagation (Cost: slow block propagation may increase the rate of
62  orphaned blocks and mining centralization)
63
64A change aiming to improve the performance may be rejected when a clear
65end-to-end performance improvement cannot be demonstrated. The change might
66also be rejected if the code bloat or review/maintenance burden is too high to
67justify the improvement.
68
69Benchmarks are ill-suited for testing denial-of-service issues as they are
70restricted to the same input set (introducing bias). [Fuzz
71tests](/doc/fuzzing.md) are better suited for this purpose, as they are
72specifically aimed at exploring the possible input space.
73
74Going Further
75--------------------
76
77To monitor Bitcoin Core performance more in depth (like reindex or IBD): https://github.com/bitcoin-dev-tools/benchcoin
78

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