Some benchmarks for ipfs
Run a version of the ipfs daemon you want to benchmark against, then:
$ ipfs-whatever > before.json
Then run your new patched version of ipfs and:
$ ipfs-whatever --before=before.json
checking patch operations per second...
checking 10MB file adds...
checking add-link ops per second...
Results
PatchOpsPerSec 1671.82 1763.93 5.51%
DirAddOpsPerSec 811.72 834.34 2.79%
Add10MBTime 78.75 81.96 4.07%
Add10MBStdev 16.11 13.70 -14.97%