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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright 2020 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt
+#
+# 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.
+
+"""Run benchmark of the various steps in the pre-merge tests.
+
+This can be used to tune the build times.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import csv
+import datetime
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from typing import Optional, Dict, List
+
+
+class Cmd:
+    """Command to be executed as part of the benchmark.
+
+    If name is not set, the results will not be logged to the result file.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, cmd: str, title: str = None):
+        self.cmd = cmd  # type: str
+        self.title = title  # type: Optional[str]
+        self.execution_time = None  # type: Optional[datetime.timedelta]
+
+
+# commands for the benchmark
+COMMANDS = [
+    Cmd('git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project .', 'git clone'),
+    Cmd('git checkout release/10.x', 'git checkout release'),
+    Cmd('git checkout {commit}'),
+    Cmd('git pull', 'git pull'),
+    Cmd('{pmt_root_path}/scripts/run_cmake.py detect', 'cmake autotdetect'),
+    Cmd('{pmt_root_path}/scripts/run_ninja.py all', 'ninja all 1st'),
+    Cmd('{pmt_root_path}/scripts/run_ninja.py all', 'ninja all 2nd'),
+    Cmd('{pmt_root_path}/scripts/run_ninja.py check-all', 'ninja check-all 1st'),
+    Cmd('{pmt_root_path}/scripts/run_ninja.py check-all', 'ninja check-all 2nd'),
+]
+
+
+def run_benchmark(commit: str, name: str, result_file_path: str, workdir: str, pmt_root_path: str):
+    """Tun the benchmark, write the results to a file."""
+    print('Usingn workdir {}'.format(workdir))
+    print('Using scripts from {}'.format(pmt_root_path))
+    if os.path.exists(workdir):
+        shutil.rmtree(workdir)
+    os.makedirs(workdir)
+    cmd_parameters = {
+        'pmt_root_path': pmt_root_path,
+        'commit': commit,
+    }
+    for command in COMMANDS:
+        run_cmd(command, cmd_parameters, workdir)
+    write_results(COMMANDS, result_file_path, name)
+
+
+def write_results(commands: List[Cmd], result_file_path : str, name: str):
+    fieldnames = ['name']
+    fieldnames.extend([cmd.title for cmd in COMMANDS if cmd.title is not None])
+    exists = os.path.exists(result_file_path)
+    with open(result_file_path, 'a') as csv_file:
+        writer = csv.DictWriter(csv_file, fieldnames=fieldnames, dialect=csv.excel)
+        if not exists:
+            writer.writeheader()
+        row = {
+            'name': name
+        }
+        for command in commands:
+            row[command.title] = command.execution_time.total_seconds()
+        writer.writerow(row)
+    print('Benchmark completed.')
+
+
+def run_cmd(command: Cmd, cmd_parameters: Dict[str, str], workdir: str):
+    """Run a single command."""
+    cmdline = command.cmd.format(**cmd_parameters)
+    print('Running: {}'.format(cmdline))
+    start_time = datetime.datetime.now()
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, shell=True, cwd=workdir, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()
+    if proc.poll() != 0:
+        print(stdout)
+        print(stderr)
+        print('Benchmark failed.')
+        sys.exit(1)
+    end_time = datetime.datetime.now()
+    command.execution_time = end_time - start_time
+    print('  Execution time was: {}'.format(command.execution_time))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    pmt_root = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description='Benchmark for LLVM pre-merge tests.')
+    parser.add_argument('--commit', type=str, default='master', help="LLVM commit to run this benchmark on.")
+    parser.add_argument('--result-file', type=str, default='pmt-benchmark.csv',
+                        help="path to CSV file where to store the benchmark results")
+    parser.add_argument('--workdir', type=str, default=os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'benchmark'),
+                        help='Folder to store the LLVM checkout.')
+    parser.add_argument('name', type=str, nargs='?', help="name for the benchmark")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    run_benchmark(args.commit, args.name, args.result_file, args.workdir, pmt_root)