sharkdp/hyperfine
A command-line benchmarking tool
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Where it stands
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Ranks #123 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 4%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 121 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a command-line tool for benchmarking shell commands with statistical analysis and hardware counter support.
- Delivers precise, automated benchmarking with warmup, cache control, and parameterized runs for reliable performance comparisons.
- Use for comparing execution times of different command-line tools or scripts to identify the fastest implementation.
- Use for benchmarking software performance across multiple Git branches to evaluate code changes impact.
- Use for generating detailed performance reports in various formats for integration with CI pipelines or research documentation.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
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Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+47 stars over 3 days across 4 snapshot days; best day +21 on Oct 11.
Forks
522+1
Open issues
54+0
Compared with peers in CLI
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| morluto/rea | 373.3K | +249.0K | 60 | 5 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 295.1K | +11.9K | 75 | 13 days ago |
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| Alishahryar1/free-claude-code | 62.2K | +4.1K | 75 | 2 days ago |
| farion1231/cc-switch | 147.2K | +3.7K | 75 | today |
| sharkdp/hyperfine | 29.1K | +144 | 55 | 4 days ago |
| Category median | 147.2K | +6.9K | 75 | — |
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