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Update docs on estimated time of running full asv suite (#36836)
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doc/source/development/contributing.rst

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The ``-E virtualenv`` option should be added to all ``asv`` commands
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that run benchmarks. The default value is defined in ``asv.conf.json``.
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Running the full test suite can take up to one hour and use up to 3GB of RAM.
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Usually it is sufficient to paste only a subset of the results into the pull
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request to show that the committed changes do not cause unexpected performance
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regressions. You can run specific benchmarks using the ``-b`` flag, which
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takes a regular expression. For example, this will only run tests from a
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``pandas/asv_bench/benchmarks/groupby.py`` file::
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Running the full benchmark suite can be an all-day process, depending on your
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hardware and its resource utilization. However, usually it is sufficient to paste
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only a subset of the results into the pull request to show that the committed changes
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do not cause unexpected performance regressions. You can run specific benchmarks
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using the ``-b`` flag, which takes a regular expression. For example, this will
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only run benchmarks from a ``pandas/asv_bench/benchmarks/groupby.py`` file::
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asv continuous -f 1.1 upstream/master HEAD -b ^groupby
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If you want to only run a specific group of tests from a file, you can do it
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If you want to only run a specific group of benchmarks from a file, you can do it
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using ``.`` as a separator. For example::
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asv continuous -f 1.1 upstream/master HEAD -b groupby.GroupByMethods

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