# Introduction

dbusmenu-bench measures the time it takes to call various DBusMenu methods and
print the results on stdout. A test dbusmenu application must be started before
running dbusmenu-bench.

A GLib test application is included in this archive. libdbusmenu-qt provides an
equivalent Qt test application. They both can load the same menu hierarchy from
a JSON file.

# Using it

1. Start dbusmenu-testapp:

    dbusmenu-testapp /usr/share/libdbusmenu/json/test-gtk-label.json

2. Run dbusmenu-bench

    dbusmenu-bench --count 1000

1000 is the number of times each DBusMenu method is called. Calling them 1000
times helps getting meaningful average values.

3. Stop dbusmenu-testapp

For debugging purpose, you can also run dbusmenu-bench with the "--dump"
parameter, which will dump the output of the called methods.