Solana Computes

This repo serves two purposes at the moment:

1. To demonstrate how to easily benchmark compute units of common Solana instructions
2. As a template for .github actions on an Anchor project

Current benchmarks

Only demonstrating some basic uses here, but in this case we look at the cost of creating a Pubkey from a base58 string, versus using the 'pubkey!' macro.

Test Output:

  compute_unit_benchmark
Baseline compute units:  524
Pubkey from macro used 12335 of compute units (+11811)
Pubkey from string used 20999 of compute units (+20475)
    ✔ It should measure a benchmark for pubkey parsing (1720ms)

Anchor Github Actions

I couldn't find a good example project for testing anchor programs with Github Actions.

In my case, I wanted the following:

• User can specify the version of Anchor installed
• Ability to cache the Anchor install (reduce test setup time from 10's of minutes to under 2 minutes)
• Cache node_modules

The process can be summed up as:

1. Setup base linux install with necessary build packages
2. Setup Solana and Anchor CLI
3. Setup Node.js
4. Run 'yarn' to install javascript dependecies
5. Build and test anchor project

Install and run locally

Assumes you have 'anchor' correctly installed and set up.

1. cd this_project_dir
2. yarn
3. anchor test