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.. _python-benchmarks:

Benchmarks
==========

The ``pyarrow`` package comes with a suite of benchmarks meant to
run with `ASV`_.  You'll need to install the ``asv`` package first
(``pip install asv`` or ``conda install -c conda-forge asv``).

Running the benchmarks
----------------------

To run the benchmarks for a locally-built Arrow, run ``asv dev`` or
``asv run --python=same``.

We use conda environments as part of running the benchmarks. To use the ``asv``
setup, you must set the ``$CONDA_HOME`` environment variable to point to the
root of your conda installation.

Running for arbitrary Git revisions
-----------------------------------

ASV allows to store results and generate graphs of the benchmarks over
the project's evolution.  You need to have the latest development version of ASV:

.. code::

    pip install git+https://github.com/airspeed-velocity/asv

Now you should be ready to run ``asv run`` or whatever other command
suits your needs.  Note that this can be quite long, as each Arrow needs
to be rebuilt for each Git revision you're running the benchmarks for.

Compatibility
-------------

We only expect the benchmarking setup to work on a Unix-like system with bash.

.. _asv: https://asv.readthedocs.org/