We assume that you use something like hyperfine to run warmups, like
our driver script does.
This allows the script to be run e.g. in valgrind without being too
much of a pain in the gluteus.
To allow paths with spaces, give a shell-quoted path to hyperfine. We
could make this a bit shorter by quoting as early as possible, like
FISH_PATH=$(quote "$1")
and then use $FISH_PATH unquoted. I discarded that idea because it
probably looks surprising.
Closes#8559
Results after 14908322a9, compared to 3.1.2:
math.fish
fish
rusage self:
user time: 916 ms
sys time: 39 ms
total time: 955 ms
max rss: 35028 kb
signals: 0
build/fish
rusage self:
user time: 769 ms
sys time: 60 ms
total time: 829 ms
max rss: 34868 kb
signals: 0
Benchmark #1: fish benchmarks/benchmarks/math.fish > /dev/null
Time (mean ± σ): 955.2 ms ± 32.5 ms [User: 897.2 ms, System: 57.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 896.3 ms … 1002.5 ms 10 runs
Benchmark #2: build/fish benchmarks/benchmarks/math.fish > /dev/null
Time (mean ± σ): 840.3 ms ± 21.5 ms [User: 784.4 ms, System: 54.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 802.4 ms … 869.0 ms 10 runs
Summary
'build/fish benchmarks/benchmarks/math.fish > /dev/null' ran
1.14 ± 0.05 times faster than 'fish benchmarks/benchmarks/math.fish > /dev/null'
This did some weird unescaping to try to extract the first word.
So we're now more likely to be *correct*, and the alias benchmark is
about 20% *faster*.
Call it a win-win.
