benchmark: replace table in docs with description of file tree structure

Theo-Steiner · danielleadams · commit ff94f9ffbec7 · 2023-04-10T22:18:18.000-04:00
The markdown table in `benchmark/README.md` has grown stale, no longer providing an overview over all existing benchmarks. As it has proven difficult to keep an exhaustive listing of available benchmarks up to date, this commit provides a description of how the directory is structured instead. PR-URL: #46991 Reviewed-By: Kohei Ueno <kohei.ueno119@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com>
diff --git a/benchmark/README.md b/benchmark/README.md
@@ -9,39 +9,22 @@ directory, see [the guide on benchmarks](../doc/contributing/writing-and-running
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
-* [Benchmark directories](#benchmark-directories)
+* [File tree structure](#file-tree-structure)
 * [Common API](#common-api)
 
-## Benchmark Directories
-
-| Directory       | Purpose                                                                                                          |
-| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| assert          | Benchmarks for the `assert` subsystem.                                                                           |
-| buffers         | Benchmarks for the `buffer` subsystem.                                                                           |
-| child\_process  | Benchmarks for the `child_process` subsystem.                                                                    |
-| crypto          | Benchmarks for the `crypto` subsystem.                                                                           |
-| dgram           | Benchmarks for the `dgram` subsystem.                                                                            |
-| domain          | Benchmarks for the `domain` subsystem.                                                                           |
-| es              | Benchmarks for various new ECMAScript features and their pre-ES2015 counterparts.                                |
-| events          | Benchmarks for the `events` subsystem.                                                                           |
-| fixtures        | Benchmarks fixtures used in various benchmarks throughout the benchmark suite.                                   |
-| fs              | Benchmarks for the `fs` subsystem.                                                                               |
-| http            | Benchmarks for the `http` subsystem.                                                                             |
-| http2           | Benchmarks for the `http2` subsystem.                                                                            |
-| misc            | Miscellaneous benchmarks and benchmarks for shared internal modules.                                             |
-| module          | Benchmarks for the `module` subsystem.                                                                           |
-| net             | Benchmarks for the `net` subsystem.                                                                              |
-| path            | Benchmarks for the `path` subsystem.                                                                             |
-| perf\_hooks     | Benchmarks for the `perf_hooks` subsystem.                                                                       |
-| process         | Benchmarks for the `process` subsystem.                                                                          |
-| querystring     | Benchmarks for the `querystring` subsystem.                                                                      |
-| streams         | Benchmarks for the `streams` subsystem.                                                                          |
-| string\_decoder | Benchmarks for the `string_decoder` subsystem.                                                                   |
-| timers          | Benchmarks for the `timers` subsystem, including `setTimeout`, `setInterval`, .etc.                              |
-| tls             | Benchmarks for the `tls` subsystem.                                                                              |
-| url             | Benchmarks for the `url` subsystem, including the legacy `url` implementation and the WHATWG URL implementation. |
-| util            | Benchmarks for the `util` subsystem.                                                                             |
-| vm              | Benchmarks for the `vm` subsystem.                                                                               |
+## File tree structure
+
+### Directories
+
+Benchmarks testing the performance of a single node submodule are placed into a
+directory with the corresponding name, so that they can be executed by submodule
+or individually.
+Benchmarks that span multiple submodules may either be placed into the `misc`
+directory or into a directory named after the feature they benchmark.
+E.g. benchmarks for various new ECMAScript features and their pre-ES2015
+counterparts are placed in a directory named `es`.
+Fixtures that are not specific to a certain benchmark but can be reused
+throughout the benchmark suite should be placed in the `fixtures` directory.
 
 ### Other Top-level files
 
