rust/src/test/bench/task-perf-jargon-metal-smoke.rs

// Test performance of a task "spawn ladder", in which children task have many
// many ancestor taskgroups, but with only a few such groups alive at a time.
// Each child task has to enlist as a descendant in each of its ancestor
// groups, but that shouldn't have to happen for already-dead groups.
//
// The filename is a song reference; google it in quotes.

fn child_generation(gens_left: uint, -c: pipes::Chan<()>) {
    // This used to be O(n^2) in the number of generations that ever existed.
    // With this code, only as many generations are alive at a time as tasks
    // alive at a time,
    let c = ~mut Some(move c);
    do task::spawn_supervised |move c| {
        let c = option::swap_unwrap(c);
        if gens_left & 1 == 1 {
            task::yield(); // shake things up a bit
        }
        if gens_left > 0 {
            child_generation(gens_left - 1, move c); // recurse
        } else {
            c.send(())
        }
    }
}

fn main() {
    let args = os::args();
    let args = if os::getenv(~"RUST_BENCH").is_some() {
        ~[~"", ~"100000"]
    } else if args.len() <= 1 {
        ~[~"", ~"100"]
    } else {
        copy args
    };

    let (c,p) = pipes::stream();
    child_generation(uint::from_str(args[1]).get(), move c);
    if p.try_recv().is_none() {
        fail ~"it happened when we slumbered";
    }
}