Contents
This page contains a collection of JCHR benchmarks useful to measure JCHR's performance and compare it to other (CHR) systems.
The Prolog-counterparts of these benchmarks can be found on the K.U.Leuven CHR System website. The union-benchmark is based on the benchmarks found on the following online appendix: Union-Find in CHR.
The benchmarks
The benchmarks can be downloaded here: [benchmarks.zip]. The archive contains the following benchmarks (including source):
| Name | Description | Required handler(s) |
|---|---|---|
| union | Taking the union of N elements in a specific manner | guf, iuf |
| fib | Calculates the first N Fibonacci numbers | fib |
| primes | Calculates prime numbers up to N | primes |
| leq | Solves a circular chain of N lesser-than-or-equal variables | leq |
| bool | N-digit binary addition | bool |
| mergesort | Sorts an array N times using a mergesort algorithm | mergesort |
| dijkstra | Calculates the shortest path in several Hamiltonian cycles. For more information, please consult the paper by Jon Sneyers et al. [extented report] | dijkstra (and fib_heap) |
| ram | Counts from 1 to N on a simulated RAM machine | ram |
To run a K.U.Leuven JCHR benchmark the corresponding (compiled!) handler(s) have to be on the Java class search path (cf. above table; all these handlers and more are available from the examples page), as well as of course the K.U.Leuven JCHR runtime system. Also, make sure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5 or higher installed [website, download]. More information on how to run a Java program can be found here.
Finally you will also need to include the tool JBench [website, download]. More info on running and configuring JBench tasks can be found in the JBench manual.
A typical benchmark session looks like:
java benchmark.Main name
Alternatively, one can still use:
java uk.org.skeet.jbench.JBench benchmark/name/NameBenchmark.properties
Most users will however prefer the former façade class Main.
Only if you want to pass extra parameters, the latter option might be
interesting.
Of course you have to replace name with one of the values found
in the above table.
Also, make sure that both the JBench library and the K.U.Leuven
JCHR runtime library is on your class search path
(you can have a look here
if you do not know how to do this).
The following instruction will probably not work (even though you might expect it to):
java -jar jbench.jar benchmark/name/NameBenchmark.properties
The reason is that, if you use the -jar option on the java.exe command line, java.exe will quietly ignore the set environment classpath and any -classpath or -cp command line options. Therefore, the above instruction will only work if the compiled K.U.Leuven JCHR runtime code is accessible from the current working directory (i.e. also not contained in a jar file).