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[Benchmarker]

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Introduction

Benchmarker is a simple tool that lets you test various engine and mod variants in an easy way and compare results of benchmarks.
You can start it from Zero-K lobby - settings-> benchmarker or by clicking spring://@benchmark link

Installing benchmarks

Git checkout https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Benchmarks to "Benchmarks" folder - best in Spring data dir (my games/spring on windows), also works in current directory of benchmarker

On Linux

Check out to ~/.spring/Benchmarks

Key features

automatically downloads all needed dependencies (engine, mod, deps, maps)
lets you specify configuration for your test run, (engine, script and mod settings)
automatically modifies modinfo.lua (change dependency - override mod)
automatically modifies startscript as needed (map override)
compares results and sums them up in a neat table
auto calculates avg,min,max of repeating values
allows bisecting to find faulty engine/mod

How to modify configuration presets

configurations must be stored in "Configs" or "Benchmarks/Configs" folder, you can create a new subfolder there and place springsettings.cfg and various luaui files there as needed. This folder will be used as primary so it should override everything else.