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Benchmark some queries on merge

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r

Research direction

Start by reviewing the merge workflow and the existing representative tabular and spatial query paths. The issue proposes using bench::mark to run queries after merged PRs and append timings to a CSV; done would mean a repeatable baseline, with plotting and PR benchmarking treated as stretch goals.

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Description

considering

Given recent issues like #348 it might nice to have some lightweight benchmarking of a few key queries to track possible changes (either due to changes in bcdata or changes in catalogue/bcgw stuff. We can use this issue to roughgly outline a path. Here is one idea:

Lowest lift:

  • Upon a merged PR, run a script that runs n number of queries for both tabular and spatial data that is representative of the types of queries that are possible with bcdata
  • capture the timings on these queries with bench::mark
  • appends those timings to a csv file as new rows and commit that directly into this repo
  • rinse repeat to build up a baseline of how long it would take

Stretch goals:

  • benchmark directly in a PR to evaluate a code before merging <- I think really this should only ever be done if we ever encounter a scenario where it would have been nice
  • plot benchmarks and commit a png/svg to the repo for easy visualization.
Dominant language
R
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87
Forks
14
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