qt6-bb10/tests/benchmarks/corelib/time
Robin Burchell 2af04860f6 qtimezoneprivate_tz: Apply a cache over the top of timezone data
Constantly re-reading the timezone information only to be told the exact
same thing is wildly expensive, which can hurt in operations that cause
a lot of QTimeZone creation, for example, V4's DateObject - which
creates them a lot (in DaylightSavingTA).

This performance problem was identified when I noticed that a
QDateTime binding updated once per frame was causing >100% CPU usage
(on a desktop!) thanks to a QtQuickControls 1 Calendar (which has a
number of bindings to the date's properties like getMonth() and so
on).

The newly added tst_QTimeZone::systemTimeZone benchmark gets a ~90%
decrease in instruction count:

--- before
+++ after
 PASS   : tst_QTimeZone::systemTimeZone()
 RESULT : tst_QTimeZone::systemTimeZone():
-     0.024 msecs per iteration (total: 51, iterations: 2048)
+     0.0036 msecs per iteration (total: 59, iterations: 16384)

Also impacted (over in QDateTime) is
tst_QDateTime::setMSecsSinceEpochTz(). The results here are - on the
surface - less impressive (~0.17% drop), however, it isn't even
creating QTimeZone on a hot path to begin with, so a large drop would
have been a surprise.

Added several further benchmarks to cover non-system zones and
traverse transitions.

Done-With: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io>
Task-number: QTBUG-75585
Change-Id: I044a84fc2d3a2dc965f63cd3a3299fc509750bf7
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann@qt.io>
2020-03-20 16:58:09 +02:00
..
qdate Extend QDate's benchmark 2019-08-30 11:22:07 +02:00
qdatetime Convert foreach to ranged for in QDateTime benchmark 2019-08-30 11:09:59 +02:00
qtimezone qtimezoneprivate_tz: Apply a cache over the top of timezone data 2020-03-20 16:58:09 +02:00
time.pro Separate out the time, zone, date code from corelib/tools/ 2019-06-06 15:54:32 +02:00