[REQUEST] Time formatting repr from `perfplot.bench()` output

[gabrielfu]

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How would you improve perfplot?

Format the time in perfplot.bench() output in a manner similar to timeit module.

Proposal:
Adding a new function:

def format_time(dt: float, precision: int=3):
    """Formats time to unit. Taken from `timeit` module."""
    units = {"nsec": 1e-9, "usec": 1e-6, "msec": 1e-3, "sec": 1.0}
    scales = [(scale, unit) for unit, scale in units.items()]
    scales.sort(reverse=True)
    for scale, unit in scales:
        if dt >= scale:
            break
    return "%.*g %s" % (precision, dt / scale, unit)

Then, formatting it in PerfplotData.__repr__(self)

perfplot/src/perfplot/_main.py

Line 171 in f224a89

lst = [str(n)] + [str(tt) for tt in t]

-            lst = [str(n)] + [str(tt) for tt in t]
+            lst = [str(n)] + [format_time(tt) for tt in t]

What problem does it solved for you?

Right now the output from perfplot.bench() is not very readable:

Code:

out = perfplot.bench(...)
print(out)

Current output:

Overall ---------------------------------------- 100% 0:00:00
Kernels ----------------------------------------   0% 0:00:02
┌────┬────────────────────────┬────────────────────────┬────────────────────────┐
│ n  │ kernel1                │ kernel2                │ kernel3                │
├────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│ 4  │ 0.00010070000000000001 │ 4.2600000000000005e-05 │ 1.8000000000000001e-06 │
│ 8  │ 0.0002924              │ 0.0006585              │ 7.8e-06                │
│ 16 │ 0.0010366000000000002  │ 0.0052959              │ 4.1e-05                │
└────┴────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘

Proposed output:

Overall ---------------------------------------- 100% 0:00:00
Kernels ----------------------------------------   0% -:--:--
┌────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┐
│ n  │ kernel1   │ kernel2   │ kernel3   │
├────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┤
│ 4  │ 158 usec  │ 55.2 usec │ 18.1 usec │
│ 8  │ 386 usec  │ 865 usec  │ 10.9 usec │
│ 16 │ 1.43 msec │ 10.8 msec │ 57.5 usec │
└────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘

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