[PARQUET-512] Add optional google/benchmark 3rd-party dependency for performance testing

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: cpp-1.0.0
• Component/s: parquet-cpp
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 06/Feb/16 18:23
• Updated: 23/Jun/24 03:28
• Resolved: 02/May/16 00:53

Description

As part of optimizing parquet-cpp's performance, we will want to start a benchmarking suite so that we can monitor performance for regressions in critical code paths as patches are applied.

I would, at some point, like to explore web-based perf tracking using a tool like ASV:

http://asv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/