Releases: akirilov-arm/wasmtime
Releases · akirilov-arm/wasmtime
dev: Add a benchmark for measuring call overhead (#3883)
The goal of this new benchmark, `call`, is to help us measure the overhead of both calling into WebAssembly from the host as well as calling the host from WebAssembly. There's lots of various ways to measure this so this benchmark is a bit large but should hopefully be pretty thorough. It's expected that this benchmark will rarely be run in its entirety but rather only a subset of the benchmarks will be run at any one given time. Some metrics measured here are: * Typed vs Untyped vs Unchecked - testing the cost of both calling wasm with these various methods as well as having wasm call the host where the host function is defined with these various methods. * With and without `call_hook` - helps to measure the overhead of the `Store::call_hook` API. * Synchronous and Asynchronous - measures the overhead of calling into WebAssembly asynchronously (with and without the pooling allocator) in addition to defining host APIs in various methods when wasm is called asynchronously. Currently all the numbers are as expected, notably: * Host calling WebAssembly is ~25ns of overhead * WebAssembly calling the host is ~3ns of overhead * "Unchecked" is a bit slower than "typed", and "Untyped" is slower than unchecked. * Asynchronous wasm calling a synchronous host function has ~3ns of overhead (nothing more than usual). * Asynchronous calls are much slower, on the order of 2-3us due to `madvise`. Lots of other fiddly bits that can be measured here, but this will hopefully help establish a benchmark through which we can measure in the future in addition to measuring changes such as #3876