I've got my Go benchmark working with my API calls but I'm not exactly sure what it means below:
$ go test intapi -bench=. -benchmem -cover -v -cpuprofile=cpu.out
=== RUN TestAuthenticate
--- PASS: TestAuthenticate (0.00 seconds)
PASS
BenchmarkAuthenticate 20000 105010 ns/op 3199 B/op 49 allocs/op
coverage: 0.0% of statements
ok intapi 4.349s
How does it know how many calls it should make? I do have a loop with b.N as size of the loop but how does Golang know how many to run?
Also I now have cpu profile file. How can I use this to view it?
From TFM:
The benchmark function must run the target code b.N times. The benchmark package will vary b.N until the benchmark function lasts long enough to be timed reliably.