All the previous refactoring to make the assertion fast paths
smaller and faster also allows us to implement the fast paths
just with thread-local and atomic variables, without full mutexes.
However, the performance overhead of thread-safe assertions is
still significant for single threaded usage:
| slowdown | Debug | Release |
|-----------|--------:|--------:|
| fast path | 1.04x | 1.43x |
| slow path | 1.16x | 1.22x |
Thus, we don't make the assertions thread-safe by default, and instead
provide a build-time configuration option that the users can set to get
thread-safe assertions.
This commit is functional, but it still needs some follow-up work:
* We do not need full seq_cst increments for the atomic counters,
and using weaker ones can be faster.
* We brute-force updating the reporter-friendly totals from internal
atomic counters by doing it everywhere. We should properly trace
where this is needed instead.
* Message macros (`INFO`, `UNSCOPED_INFO`, `CAPTURE`, etc) are not
made thread safe in this commit, but they can be made thread safe
in the future, by building on top of this work.
* Add more tests, including with thread-sanitizer, and compiled
examples to the repository. Right now, these changes have been
compiled with tsan manually, but these tests are not added to CI.
Closes#2948
This PR introduces a new `TEST_CASE` macro called `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE`. `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE` offers the same functionality as `TEST_CASE_METHOD` except for one difference. The object on which the test method is invoked is only created once for all invocations of the test case. The object is created just after the `testCaseStarting` event is broadcast and the object is destroyed just before the `testCaseEnding` event is broadcast.
The main motivation for this new functionality is to allow `TEST_CASE`s to do expensive setup and teardown once per `TEST_CASE`, without having to resort to abusing event listeners or static function variables with manual initialization.
Implements #1602
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Co-authored-by: Martin Hořeňovský <martin.horenovsky@gmail.com>
I came here looking for a way to use a fixture. But what I really wanted was better done in the SECTION macro. Feels like a link right at the top would've made it clearer faster.
