Update CI to run and export benchmarks across several GHC versions

Author: tbagrel1

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Continuous integration
 on: [push, pull_request]
 env:
   # Bump this number to invalidate the Github-actions cache
-  cache-invalidation-key: 0
+  cache-invalidation-key: 1
   nixpkgs-url: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/574d1eac1c200690e27b8eb4e24887f8df7ac27c.tar.gz
 
 jobs:
@@ -33,13 +33,24 @@ jobs:
     - name: Update Cabal's database
       run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal update"
     - name: Build Cabal's dependencies
-      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal build --allow-newer --disable-tests --disable-benchmarks --dependencies-only"
+      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal build --disable-tests --disable-benchmarks --dependencies-only"
     - name: Build
-      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal build --allow-newer --disable-tests --disable-benchmarks"
+      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal build --disable-tests --disable-benchmarks"
     - name: Haddock
-      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal --allow-newer haddock"
+      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal haddock"
     - name: cabal-docspec
-      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run cabal-docspec
+      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal-docspec"
+    - name: Build benchmarks
+      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal build linear-base:bench:bench"
+    - name: Run benchmarks
+      run: nix-shell --arg ghcVersion '"${{ matrix.ghc-version }}"' --arg installHls 'false' --pure --run "cabal bench 2>&1 | tee benchmark_ghc${{ matrix.ghc-version }}.txt"
+    - name: Upload benchmark results
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+      with:
+        name: linear-base_benchmarks_ghc${{ matrix.ghc-version }}
+        path: |
+          benchmark_ghc${{ matrix.ghc-version }}.txt
+        retention-days: 365
 
   ormolu:
     name: check formatting with ormolu

linear-base.cabal

@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ common build-opts
                  -- Additional warnings we may consider adding:
                  -- * -Wredundant-constraints : would need deactivating in the modules which use Nat
 common rts-opts-multithread
-    ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
-common rts-opts-monothread
-    ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N1
+    ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts "-with-rtsopts=-N"
+common rts-opts-monothread-stats
+    ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts "-with-rtsopts=-N1 -T"
 
 library
     import: build-opts
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ test-suite test-examples
 
 benchmark bench
     import: build-opts
-    import: rts-opts-monothread
+    import: rts-opts-monothread-stats
     type:             exitcode-stdio-1.0
     main-is:          Main.hs
     hs-source-dirs:   bench