Moar benchmarks! \o/

[daviddias]

@goga-m, excellent work on getting this project started! I'm excited to see all the benchmarks that will follow and have the ability to visualize them!

Let's share this work on the IPFS All Hands -- https://github.com/ipfs/pm/issues/528 -- today and invite everyone to contribute with proposals and other benchmarks. Off top of my head, I'm thinking:

• file size should be adjustable so that users can experiment with different values. It is good to continue suggesting sizes (1Mb, 10Mb, 100Mb, 1Gb)
• It should be visual from how many peers we fetched files and how much did each peer contribute to the whole fetch of the file
• The speed test should compare to fetching the file using HTTP on the same network

[goga-m]

I appreciate @diasdavid, thanks! Let's make it dance :)

Good points, especially peer related information on files is something that will really give a better view of what's going on in the background. And speed comparison with HTTP seems essential too. Another thing that comes to my mind now is:

• We could also add speed test for put command as well And as @VictorBjelkholm pointed here (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/946#issuecomment-329166669)
• Be able to run tests multiple times (would be good to test any browser crash issues)
• Pining/unpinning files so that the user will be able to clear locally cached files (that could also include to create a view of lists of locally added files and the relative actions: Add file, remove/unping)