Episode 173: More benchmarking

Android Developers Backstage

Episode | Podcast

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:11:10 +0000

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Chris Craik and Rahul Ravikumar from the toolkit performance team. We talk about the recently released the</span> <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/macrobenchmark"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> macrobenchmark</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">tool+library, in addition to other interesting bits like how the benchmark libraries work, how to use them, how they relate to system tracing, how to do performance debugging in general, and even a teaser of future performance instrumentation functionality that the team is working on.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img alt="" height="184" src="https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/332855/adb174-morebenchmarking.png" width="385" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chet, Chris, Rahul (top), Romain, and Tor (bottom), all looking unusually happy.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Related info:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span> <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/profile"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Profile your app performance</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">page for an overview of the performance tools and practices we offer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://github.com/android/performance-samples"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Performance samples</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://github.com/android/performance-samples/tree/main/MacrobenchmarkSample/ftl"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Running benchmarks in continuous integration</span></a></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/chris_craik"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@chris_craik</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rahul:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/tikurahul"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@tikurahul</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chet:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/chethaase">@chethaase</a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Romain:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/romainguy">@romainguy</a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tor:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/tornorbye">@tornorbye</a></p>