test: miner benchmarks

Makefile

@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ golines:
 test: mod-tidy
 	go test -v -race ./...
 
+bench: mod-tidy
+	go test -v -bench=. ./...
+
 # Build our program binaries
 # Depends on GO_FILES to determine when rebuild is needed
 $(BINARIES): mod-tidy $(GO_FILES)

internal/miner/miner_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Blink Labs Software
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package miner
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"hash"
+	"testing"
+
+	sha256_simd "github.com/minio/sha256-simd"
+)
+
+// BenchmarkRandomNonce tests the performance of generating a completely new random nonce
+// each iteration
+func BenchmarkRandomNonce(b *testing.B) {
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		randomNonce()
+	}
+}
+
+// BenchmarkRandomNonceAndIncrement tests the performance of generating a random nonce
+// and incrementing each byte 255 times
+func BenchmarkRandomNonceAndIncrement(b *testing.B) {
+	var tmpNonce [16]byte
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		if i%256 == 0 {
+			// Generate random nonce for first and every 256 iterations
+			tmpNonce = randomNonce()
+		} else {
+			// Increment each byte of the last nonce
+			for j := 0; j < 16; j++ {
+				tmpNonce[j] = byte(uint8(tmpNonce[j]) + 1)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// BenchmarkSha256Builtin tests the performance of crypto/sha256
+func BenchmarkSha256Builtin(b *testing.B) {
+	var hasher hash.Hash
+	tmpNonce := randomNonce()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		hasher = sha256.New()
+		hasher.Write(tmpNonce[:])
+		hasher.Sum(nil)
+	}
+}
+
+// BenchmarkSha256Simd tests the performance github.com/minio/sha256-simd
+func BenchmarkSha256Simd(b *testing.B) {
+	var hasher hash.Hash
+	tmpNonce := randomNonce()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		hasher = sha256_simd.New()
+		hasher.Write(tmpNonce[:])
+		hasher.Sum(nil)
+	}
+}