Profile Timer

A simple utility tool to profile go code.

Profile timer works like a stop watch, you start the timer and call the step function everytime you want to add a new data point. At the end you can print a summary of all the steps and the amount of time each step took.

Installation

go get -u github.com/ejoffe/profiletimer

Usage

func main() {
    timer := profiletimer.StartProfileTimer()

    doSomeStuff()
    timer.Step("doSomeStuff")
    doSomeMoreStuff()
    timer.Step("doSomeMoreStuff")
    doEvenMoreStuff()
    timer.Step("doEvenMoreStuff")

    timer.ShowResults()
}

The code above will print out a summary to stdout with the amount of time each step took.

doSomeStuff     : 2165.694534ms
doSomeMoreStuff : 11.568080ms
doEvenMoreStuff : 541.535541ms
-------------------------------
total           : 2718.798155ms

Middleware

func main() {
    router := chi.NewRouter()
    router.Use(profiletimer.TimerMiddleware)
    router.Get("/", get)
    http.ListenAndServe(":80", router)
}

func get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    timer := profiletimer.TimerFromContext(r.Context())
    doSomeStuff()
    timer.Step("doSomeStuff")
    doSomeMoreStuff()
    timer.Step("doSomeMoreStuff")
    doEvenMoreStuff()
    timer.Step("doEvenMoreStuff")
}

Noop Timer

Often, you'll want to leave the profile step functions in the code and only run them in debug or profile mode. In this case you can use StartProfileTimer() when in debug mode, and otherwise instantiate the timer using StartNoopTimer().

License

• MIT License