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// Copyright 2016 Ismael Jimenez Martinez. All rights reserved.
// Copyright 2017 Roman Lebedev. All rights reserved.
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#include "benchmark/benchmark.h"
 
#include <algorithm>
#include <cmath>
#include <numeric>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "check.h"
#include "statistics.h"
 
namespace benchmark {
 
auto StatisticsSum = [](const std::vector<double>& v) {
  return std::accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), 0.0);
};
 
double StatisticsMean(const std::vector<double>& v) {
  if (v.empty()) return 0.0;
  return StatisticsSum(v) * (1.0 / v.size());
}
 
double StatisticsMedian(const std::vector<double>& v) {
  if (v.size() < 3) return StatisticsMean(v);
  std::vector<double> copy(v);
 
  auto center = copy.begin() + v.size() / 2;
  std::nth_element(copy.begin(), center, copy.end());
 
  // did we have an odd number of samples?
  // if yes, then center is the median
  // it no, then we are looking for the average between center and the value
  // before
  if (v.size() % 2 == 1) return *center;
  auto center2 = copy.begin() + v.size() / 2 - 1;
  std::nth_element(copy.begin(), center2, copy.end());
  return (*center + *center2) / 2.0;
}
 
// Return the sum of the squares of this sample set
auto SumSquares = [](const std::vector<double>& v) {
  return std::inner_product(v.begin(), v.end(), v.begin(), 0.0);
};
 
auto Sqr = [](const double dat) { return dat * dat; };
auto Sqrt = [](const double dat) {
  // Avoid NaN due to imprecision in the calculations
  if (dat < 0.0) return 0.0;
  return std::sqrt(dat);
};
 
double StatisticsStdDev(const std::vector<double>& v) {
  const auto mean = StatisticsMean(v);
  if (v.empty()) return mean;
 
  // Sample standard deviation is undefined for n = 1
  if (v.size() == 1) return 0.0;
 
  const double avg_squares = SumSquares(v) * (1.0 / v.size());
  return Sqrt(v.size() / (v.size() - 1.0) * (avg_squares - Sqr(mean)));
}
 
double StatisticsCV(const std::vector<double>& v) {
  if (v.size() < 2) return 0.0;
 
  const auto stddev = StatisticsStdDev(v);
  const auto mean = StatisticsMean(v);
 
  return stddev / mean;
}
 
std::vector<BenchmarkReporter::Run> ComputeStats(
    const std::vector<BenchmarkReporter::Run>& reports) {
  typedef BenchmarkReporter::Run Run;
  std::vector<Run> results;
 
  auto error_count =
      std::count_if(reports.begin(), reports.end(),
                    [](Run const& run) { return run.error_occurred; });
 
  if (reports.size() - error_count < 2) {
    // We don't report aggregated data if there was a single run.
    return results;
  }
 
  // Accumulators.
  std::vector<double> real_accumulated_time_stat;
  std::vector<double> cpu_accumulated_time_stat;
 
  real_accumulated_time_stat.reserve(reports.size());
  cpu_accumulated_time_stat.reserve(reports.size());
 
  // All repetitions should be run with the same number of iterations so we
  // can take this information from the first benchmark.
  const IterationCount run_iterations = reports.front().iterations;
  // create stats for user counters
  struct CounterStat {
    Counter c;
    std::vector<double> s;
  };
  std::map<std::string, CounterStat> counter_stats;
  for (Run const& r : reports) {
    for (auto const& cnt : r.counters) {
      auto it = counter_stats.find(cnt.first);
      if (it == counter_stats.end()) {
        counter_stats.insert({cnt.first, {cnt.second, std::vector<double>{}}});
        it = counter_stats.find(cnt.first);
        it->second.s.reserve(reports.size());
      } else {
        BM_CHECK_EQ(counter_stats[cnt.first].c.flags, cnt.second.flags);
      }
    }
  }
 
  // Populate the accumulators.
  for (Run const& run : reports) {
    BM_CHECK_EQ(reports[0].benchmark_name(), run.benchmark_name());
    BM_CHECK_EQ(run_iterations, run.iterations);
    if (run.error_occurred) continue;
    real_accumulated_time_stat.emplace_back(run.real_accumulated_time);
    cpu_accumulated_time_stat.emplace_back(run.cpu_accumulated_time);
    // user counters
    for (auto const& cnt : run.counters) {
      auto it = counter_stats.find(cnt.first);
      BM_CHECK_NE(it, counter_stats.end());
      it->second.s.emplace_back(cnt.second);
    }
  }
 
  // Only add label if it is same for all runs
  std::string report_label = reports[0].report_label;
  for (std::size_t i = 1; i < reports.size(); i++) {
    if (reports[i].report_label != report_label) {
      report_label = "";
      break;
    }
  }
 
  const double iteration_rescale_factor =
      double(reports.size()) / double(run_iterations);
 
  for (const auto& Stat : *reports[0].statistics) {
    // Get the data from the accumulator to BenchmarkReporter::Run's.
    Run data;
    data.run_name = reports[0].run_name;
    data.family_index = reports[0].family_index;
    data.per_family_instance_index = reports[0].per_family_instance_index;
    data.run_type = BenchmarkReporter::Run::RT_Aggregate;
    data.threads = reports[0].threads;
    data.repetitions = reports[0].repetitions;
    data.repetition_index = Run::no_repetition_index;
    data.aggregate_name = Stat.name_;
    data.aggregate_unit = Stat.unit_;
    data.report_label = report_label;
 
    // It is incorrect to say that an aggregate is computed over
    // run's iterations, because those iterations already got averaged.
    // Similarly, if there are N repetitions with 1 iterations each,
    // an aggregate will be computed over N measurements, not 1.
    // Thus it is best to simply use the count of separate reports.
    data.iterations = reports.size();
 
    data.real_accumulated_time = Stat.compute_(real_accumulated_time_stat);
    data.cpu_accumulated_time = Stat.compute_(cpu_accumulated_time_stat);
 
    if (data.aggregate_unit == StatisticUnit::kTime) {
      // We will divide these times by data.iterations when reporting, but the
      // data.iterations is not necessarily the scale of these measurements,
      // because in each repetition, these timers are sum over all the iters.
      // And if we want to say that the stats are over N repetitions and not
      // M iterations, we need to multiply these by (N/M).
      data.real_accumulated_time *= iteration_rescale_factor;
      data.cpu_accumulated_time *= iteration_rescale_factor;
    }
 
    data.time_unit = reports[0].time_unit;
 
    // user counters
    for (auto const& kv : counter_stats) {
      // Do *NOT* rescale the custom counters. They are already properly scaled.
      const auto uc_stat = Stat.compute_(kv.second.s);
      auto c = Counter(uc_stat, counter_stats[kv.first].c.flags,
                       counter_stats[kv.first].c.oneK);
      data.counters[kv.first] = c;
    }
 
    results.push_back(data);
  }
 
  return results;
}
 
}  // end namespace benchmark