[MERGE] more startup benchmarks

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Oct 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> The attached patch adds several more benchmarks which just test the time
> for simple commands to run.
> 
> Mostly, I'm trying to add benchmarks which show improvements in startup
> time. So all of these are meant to be small actions, which will help
> show that bzr scales down (a simple operation takes a very short amount
> of time to complete).
> 
> I'd like to get these merged soon, since it would be nice to see how the
> startup time decreases as more of my lazy import patches land.

+1, except that I wonder if we should actually run the commands several
times (say 10), to make the runtime more measurable?


-- 
Martin