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Niels Lohmann ec4bdc398a Document the benchmarks, make them build and compare versions again, and pin Google Benchmark (#5556)
* Document the benchmarks, and make them build and compare versions again

The benchmark project hasn't configured since #4793: download_test_data.cmake
compiles cmake/detect_libcpp_version.cpp relative to CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR, which
is tests/benchmarks when that is the top-level project, so try_run fails and
so does `make run_benchmarks`. The path is now relative to the module itself,
which is the same file for the main build.

The Dump benchmark discarded dump()'s result, which is [[nodiscard]] by now;
it warned, and left the optimizer free to shorten the loop. The result is
now kept with benchmark::DoNotOptimize.

A new cache variable, JSON_BENCHMARK_INCLUDE_DIR, names the directory holding
the nlohmann/json.hpp to benchmark (single_include by default, as before),
so the same benchmarks can be built against two versions and compared.

tests/benchmarks/README.md documents what is measured, how to build and run
the benchmarks, how to read the output, and how to compare two versions with
Google Benchmark's compare.py; it recommends doing so by hand before a
release rather than in CI.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Point ci_benchmarks at tests/benchmarks

The target has configured ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/benchmarks since it was
added in #2561, but the benchmarks live in tests/benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Pin Google Benchmark to release 1.9.5

The benchmarks fetched Google Benchmark's main branch, so two builds on
different days could measure with different library code, and CMake 3.30
and later warn that the single-argument FetchContent_Populate() is
deprecated. Fetch the 1.9.5 release archive, verified by its SHA-256,
with FetchContent_MakeAvailable() instead. That needs CMake 3.14; Google
Benchmark itself already needed 3.13.

Its -Werror is switched off, so a newer compiler's new warnings cannot
break the pinned release, and its install rules are no longer added.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-09-25 20:43:34 +02:00

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set(JSON_TEST_DATA_URL https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data)
set(JSON_TEST_DATA_VERSION 3.1.0)
include(ExternalProject)
# if variable is set, use test data from given directory rather than downloading them
if(JSON_TestDataDirectory)
message(STATUS "Using test data in ${JSON_TestDataDirectory}.")
add_custom_target(download_test_data)
file(WRITE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/test_data.hpp "#define TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY \"${JSON_TestDataDirectory}\"\n")
else()
# create a header with the path to the downloaded test data
file(WRITE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/test_data.hpp "#define TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY \"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/test_files\"\n")
# download test data from the GitHub tag source archive
ExternalProject_Add(download_test_data_project
URL "${JSON_TEST_DATA_URL}/archive/refs/tags/v${JSON_TEST_DATA_VERSION}.zip"
SOURCE_DIR "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/test_files"
CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
BUILD_COMMAND ""
INSTALL_COMMAND ""
LOG_DOWNLOAD TRUE
DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP TRUE
EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL TRUE
)
# target to download test data
add_custom_target(download_test_data
DEPENDS download_test_data_project
)
endif()
# determine the operating system (for debug and support purposes)
find_program(UNAME_COMMAND uname)
find_program(LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND lsb_release)
find_program(SW_VERS_COMMAND sw_vers)
set(OS_VERSION_STRINGS "${CMAKE_SYSTEM}")
if (CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
# "ver" is a cmd.exe builtin rather than a standalone executable, so it
# cannot be located with find_program and must be invoked through cmd
execute_process(COMMAND cmd /c ver OUTPUT_VARIABLE VER_COMMAND_RESULT ERROR_QUIET)
string(STRIP "${VER_COMMAND_RESULT}" VER_COMMAND_RESULT)
if (VER_COMMAND_RESULT)
set(OS_VERSION_STRINGS "${OS_VERSION_STRINGS}; ${VER_COMMAND_RESULT}")
endif()
endif()
if (SW_VERS_COMMAND)
execute_process(COMMAND ${SW_VERS_COMMAND} OUTPUT_VARIABLE SW_VERS_COMMAND_RESULT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE ERROR_QUIET)
string(REGEX REPLACE "[ ]*\n" "; " SW_VERS_COMMAND_RESULT "${SW_VERS_COMMAND_RESULT}")
set(OS_VERSION_STRINGS "${OS_VERSION_STRINGS}; ${SW_VERS_COMMAND_RESULT}")
endif()
if (LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND)
execute_process(COMMAND ${LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND} -a OUTPUT_VARIABLE LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND_RESULT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE ERROR_QUIET)
string(REGEX REPLACE "[ ]*\n" "; " LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND_RESULT "${LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND_RESULT}")
set(OS_VERSION_STRINGS "${OS_VERSION_STRINGS}; ${LSB_RELEASE_COMMAND_RESULT}")
endif()
if (UNAME_COMMAND)
execute_process(COMMAND ${UNAME_COMMAND} -a OUTPUT_VARIABLE UNAME_COMMAND_RESULT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE ERROR_QUIET)
set(OS_VERSION_STRINGS "${OS_VERSION_STRINGS}; ${UNAME_COMMAND_RESULT}")
endif()
message(STATUS "Operating system: ${OS_VERSION_STRINGS}")
# determine the compiler (for debug and support purposes)
if (MSVC)
execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} OUTPUT_VARIABLE CXX_VERSION_RESULT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE ERROR_VARIABLE CXX_VERSION_RESULT ERROR_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
set(CXX_VERSION_RESULT "${CXX_VERSION_RESULT}; MSVC_VERSION=${MSVC_VERSION}; MSVC_TOOLSET_VERSION=${MSVC_TOOLSET_VERSION}")
else()
execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} --version OUTPUT_VARIABLE CXX_VERSION_RESULT OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
endif()
string(REGEX REPLACE "[ ]*\n" "; " CXX_VERSION_RESULT "${CXX_VERSION_RESULT}")
message(STATUS "Compiler: ${CXX_VERSION_RESULT}")
# determine used C++ standard library (for debug and support purposes)
if(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
set(LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT_CACHED "could not be detected due to cross-compiling" CACHE STRING "Detected C++ standard library version")
endif()
if(NOT DEFINED LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT_CACHED)
try_run(RUN_RESULT_VAR COMPILE_RESULT_VAR
"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" SOURCES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/detect_libcpp_version.cpp"
RUN_OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT
COMPILE_OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBCPP_VERSION_COMPILE_OUTPUT
)
if(NOT LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT)
set(LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT "Unknown")
message(AUTHOR_WARNING "Failed to compile cmake/detect_libcpp_version to detect the used C++ standard library. This does not affect the library or the test cases. Please still create an issue at https://github.com/nlohmann/json to investigate this.\n${LIBCPP_VERSION_COMPILE_OUTPUT}")
endif()
set(LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT_CACHED "${LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT}" CACHE STRING "Detected C++ standard library version")
endif()
message(STATUS "C++ standard library: ${LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT_CACHED}")