# Criterion: robust, reliable performance measurement

This package provides the Criterion module, a Haskell library for
measuring and analysing software performance.

To get started, read the documentation for the
[Criterion.Main](http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/criterion/latest/doc/html/Criterion-Main.html)
module, and take a look at the programs in the
[examples](https://github.com/bos/criterion/tree/master/examples)
directory.


# Building and installing

To build and install criterion, just run

    cabal install criterion


# Get involved!

Please report bugs via the
[github issue tracker](https://github.com/bos/criterion).

Master [github repository](https://github.com/bos/criterion):

* `git clone git://github.com/bos/criterion.git`

There's also a [Mercurial mirror](http://bitbucket.org/bos/criterion):

* `hg clone https://bitbucket.org/bos/criterion`

(You can create and contribute changes using either Mercurial or git.)


# Authors

This library is written and maintained by Bryan O'Sullivan,
<bos@serpentine.com>.