Running Node.js benchmarks in the community CI

[gareth-ellis]

Hello @nodejs/collaborators ,

The community benchmarking workgroup has been working to get an easy way to launch and test the impactof a PR using a subset of benchmarks, making use of the hardware that was donated by Intel.

We've had a number of people test this out, and now we're at the point where it would be useful (both for us from a testing/verification perspective, and for the rest of the community) to see more people trying this out.

We've documented the use in https://github.com/nodejs/benchmarking/blob/master/docs/core_benchmarks.md

So, the next time you have a PR that there is a concern whether it would impact performance (or even if you just want to give the benchmarks in the CI a go), take a look and report back.

If you run into issues, please tag @nodejs/benchmarking or raise an issue in the benchmarking repo.

Thanks!

[joyeecheung]

BTW: #16557 is still open (the CI is using the test double for HTTP benchmarks because it does not have wrk/autocannon installed.), in case anyone wants to pick it up (I assigned that to myself but I've been a bit busy to tackle this).

[gareth-ellis]

I can take a look - if there's issues like that in the future, tagging the benchmarking team would notify a larger group of people and so hopefully someone can look. I'll comment in that issue

[mhdawson]

The issue @joyeecheung mentioned should now be resolved.

[mhdawson]

I think its in place and being used closing.