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[FEA] cpp-bench: add support to specify different benchmark workloads from a config file

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#1,156 opened on Sep 27, 2019

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Description

Currently, most existing benchmarks expect a getInputs-like method to return a vector of input params which form as inputs to the fixtures.

@cjnolet's suggestion here is really cool!! If we can support some sort of a config file that these fixtures could parse to automatically populate this vector, then the advantage is that the same config file can be used to configure both cpp and python benchmarks.

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Research direction
Design a config file format (e.g., YAML or JSON) for specifying benchmark workloads in cpp bench. Review the existing `getInputs` mechanism and the discussion reference in the issue (https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/1148#discussion r328783631). Implement a parser that populates the input vector from the config file.
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python
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machine learning
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3
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C++benchmarking
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