benchmarks: add common.v8ForceOptimization

It's useful to be able to force optimization of a function.
Rather than duplicating the code everywhere for it, let's
make a utility available.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6222
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/benchmark/common.js b/benchmark/common.js
index d1bc985f09..71b93d038a 100644
--- a/benchmark/common.js
+++ b/benchmark/common.js
@@ -255,3 +255,15 @@ Benchmark.prototype.getHeading = function() {
     }).join(',');
   }
 };
+
+exports.v8ForceOptimization = function(method, ...args) {
+  if (typeof method !== 'function')
+    return;
+  const v8 = require('v8');
+  v8.setFlagsFromString('--allow_natives_syntax');
+  method.apply(null, args);
+  eval('%OptimizeFunctionOnNextCall(method)');
+  method.apply(null, args);
+  return eval('%GetOptimizationStatus(method)');
+};
+