run-rust-benchmarks

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Run Rust benchmarks and compare performance with the C implementation. Use this when you work on migrating C code to Rust and want to ensure performance is not regressed.

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Rust Benchmarks Skill

Run Rust benchmarks and compare performance with the C implementation.

Arguments

<crate>: Run the given benchmark crate (e.g., /run-rust-benchmarks rqe_iterators_bencher)
<crate> <bench>: Run specific bench in a benchmark crate (e.g., /run-rust-benchmarks rqe_iterators_bencher "Iterator - InvertedIndex - Numeric - Read Dense")

Arguments provided: $ARGUMENTS

Instructions

Check the arguments provided above:

If a crate name is provided, run benchmarks for that crate:

cargo bench --manifest-path src/redisearch_rs/Cargo.toml -p <crate_name>

If both crate and bench name are provided, run the specific bench:

cargo bench --manifest-path src/redisearch_rs/Cargo.toml -p <crate_name> <bench_name>

Run benchmarks only once. If the output is too large or truncated, extract the timing data from the saved output file rather than re-running the benchmarks.
Once the benchmarks are complete, generate a summary comparing the average run times between the Rust and C implementations.
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Common Benchmark Commands

# Bench given crate
cargo bench --manifest-path src/redisearch_rs/Cargo.toml -p rqe_iterators_bencher
cargo bench --manifest-path src/redisearch_rs/Cargo.toml -p inverted_index_bencher

# Run a specific benchmark
cargo bench --manifest-path src/redisearch_rs/Cargo.toml -p rqe_iterators_bencher "Iterator - InvertedIndex - Numeric - Read Dense"