Benchmarks

benchmarks/bench.py times the built-in transport of pathapi.http and RequestsTransport on the same requests against a loopback server: 50 GETs of a 1 KiB file, one GET of a 1 MiB file and 20 PUTs of 1 KiB.

python benchmarks/bench.py            # run the benchmarks
python benchmarks/bench.py --help     # options; runs nothing
python benchmarks/bench.py --save     # also write benchmarks/results/<name>.json

Compare two runs on their medians, and only between runs from the same machine and interpreter. The result schema and the committed results are described in benchmarks/README.md. A run on a developer machine is a sanity check; performance claims come from CI runs.