read-cache: add simple performance test

Add the helper test-read-cache, which can be used to call read_cache and
discard_cache in a loop as well as a performance check based on it.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/perf/p0002-read-cache.sh b/t/perf/p0002-read-cache.sh
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+++ b/t/perf/p0002-read-cache.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description="Tests performance of reading the index"
+
+. ./perf-lib.sh
+
+test_perf_default_repo
+
+count=1000
+test_perf "read_cache/discard_cache $count times" "
+	test-read-cache $count
+"
+
+test_done