Example benchmark of bazel building envoy using hyperfine.sh

benchmark_hyperfine_envoy.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Example of using hyperfine to benchmark bazel-based builds of Envoy proxy:
# https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/

target="//source/exe:envoy_main_common_lib"

# Other examples of targets:
# main binary
# target="//source/exe:envoy-static"

# a smaller target:
# target="//source/common/ssl/matching:all"

# benchmarking b58d312729
hyperfine \
    --min-runs 3 \
    --setup "bazel fetch ${target}" \
    --prepare "bazel clean" \
    "bazel build ${target}"

# Results from my M3 Max:
# Benchmark 1: bazel build //source/exe:envoy_main_common_lib
#   Time (mean ± σ):     868.778 s ± 14.420 s    [User: 0.067 s, System: 0.076 s]
#   Range (min … max):   854.784 s … 883.589 s    3 runs