Allow custom bench runner

[anentropic]

It'd be nice to be able to substitute your own BenchRunner class

This makes it possible to specify one as a command-line arg to fl-run-bench

[bdelbosc]

Hi, Can you describe a bit more the use case please ? thanks

ben

[anentropic]

existing funkload.BenchRunner.BenchRunner class does not do things exactly the way I need for my tests

I would like to substitute my own class for the built-in one in order to customise behaviour, but the source code does not seem to provide many handles for extension or customising at the code level... there are many large monolithic methods and we have hard-coded class names for the BenchRunner etc.

without changing FunkLoad I think my only options are:

• monkey-patch the BenchRunner class, or
• make my own alternative fl-run-bench script and end up copy & pasting most of funkload.BenchRunner.main just to allow a different BenchRunner class

I thought a small and clean change I could make is to allow you to pass in an alternative BenchRunner class as a command line arg

[bdelbosc]

ok but once you have a better BenchRunner just pull it ;) thanks

[anentropic]

Will do if I end up with something generic enough to be useful to others :)