Compact output format, finer control over the output

[lucc]

I am running hyperfine with many different commands at once. In order to not only see the factor between the different commands at the end but also (some) of the means I suggest one, some or all of these changes to the output (switchable by a command line option):

• Do not print empty lines between mean and min-max and the headlines and so on. I can currently get quite close to what I want when I run hyperfine ... | sed '/^ *$/d'.
• The above mentioned hyperfine ... | sed '/^ *$/d' is without color and when I run hyperfine -s full ... | sed '/^ *$/d' instead I also get the interactive graph which doesn't play nicely with the pipe and sometimes messes up a line. So why not add a color style to -s which has color but is not interactive?
• All of these could be an additional value for -s and -s could be a comma separated list so that things like this would make sense: hyperfine -s compact,color, hyperfine -s interactive,compact,nocolor, hyperfine -s full,compact, hyperfne -s basic,compact...

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the feedback!

Do not print empty lines between mean and min-max and the headlines and so on. I can currently get quite close to what I want when I run hyperfine ... | sed '/^ *$/d'.

I agree, we could save up some vertical space here. What do you think of the following compromise: skip all blank lines, except between two benchmarks:

Benchmark #1: sleep 0.1
  Time (mean ± σ):     101.1 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.7 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
  Range (min … max):   100.5 ms … 101.3 ms

Benchmark #2: sleep 0.01
  Time (mean ± σ):      11.1 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 0.9 ms, System: 0.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):    10.8 ms …  11.4 ms

Benchmark #3: sleep 0.11
  Time (mean ± σ):     111.2 ms ±   0.1 ms    [User: 1.1 ms, System: 0.4 ms]
  Range (min … max):   111.1 ms … 111.3 ms

Summary
  'sleep 0.01' ran
    9.09x faster than 'sleep 0.1'
    9.99x faster than 'sleep 0.11'

The above mentioned hyperfine ... | sed '/^ *$/d' is without color and when I run hyperfine -s full ... | sed '/^ *$/d' instead I also get the interactive graph which doesn't play nicely with the pipe and sometimes messes up a line. So why not add a color style to -s which has color but is not interactive?

Sounds good to me!

All of these could be an additional value for -s and -s could be a comma separated list so that things like this would make sense: hyperfine -s compact,color, hyperfine -s interactive,compact,nocolor, hyperfine -s full,compact, hyperfne -s basic,compact...

If we would strip some blank lines by default, as suggested above, do you think we would still need a compact option?

[lucc]

I am fine with making the semi compact output that you defined the default. My suggestion for the "compact" keyword was only for backwards compatibility.

[sharkdp]

Ok, so let's:

• Strip the empty lines
• Add color as new type for --style.

[jasonpeacock]

Working on this...

[jasonpeacock]

PR submitted.

[sharkdp]

Released in v1.3.0.