solidity/test/yulPhaser/Common.h

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/**
 * Miscellaneous utilities for use in yul-phaser's test cases.
 *
 * - Generic code that's only used in these particular tests.
 * - Convenience functions and wrappers to make tests more concise.
 * - Mocks and dummy objects/functions used in multiple test suites.
 *
 * Note that the code included here may be not as generic, robust and/or complete as it could be
 * since it's not meant for production use. If some utility seems useful enough to be moved to
 * the normal code base, you should review its implementation before doing so.
 */

#pragma once

#include <cassert>
#include <vector>

namespace solidity::phaser::test
{

// STATISTICAL UTILITIES

/// Calculates the mean value of a series of samples given in a vector.
///
/// Supports any integer and real type as a convenience but the precision of the result is limited
/// to the precision of type @a double as all the values are internally converted to it.
///
/// This is a very simple, naive implementation that's more than enough for tests where we usually
/// deal with relatively short sequences of small, positive integers. It's not numerically stable
/// in more complicated cases. Don't use in production.
template <typename T>
double mean(std::vector<T> const& _samples)
{
	assert(_samples.size() > 0);

	double sum = 0;
	for (T const& sample: _samples)
		sum += static_cast<double>(sample);

	return sum / _samples.size();
}

/// Calculates the sum of squared differences between @a _expectedValue and the values of a series
/// of samples given in a vector.
///
/// Supports any integer and real type as a convenience but the precision of the result is limited
/// to the precision of type @a double as all the values are internally converted to it.
///
/// This is a very simple, naive implementation that's more than enough for tests where we usually
/// deal with relatively short sequences of small, positive integers. It's not numerically stable
/// in more complicated cases. Don't use in production.
template <typename T>
double meanSquaredError(std::vector<T> const& _samples, double _expectedValue)
{
	assert(_samples.size() > 0);

	double sumOfSquaredDifferences = 0;
	for (T const& sample: _samples)
		sumOfSquaredDifferences += (sample - _expectedValue) * (sample - _expectedValue);

	return sumOfSquaredDifferences / _samples.size();
}

}