Merge pull request #5 from AltSumpreme/main

[FEAT] Benchmarking added

.gitignore

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 build/
-
+debug/build/
 issues.txt
+*.o

CHANGELOG/v2_9.md

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+# Change Type:Minor
+
+# Summary of the changes
+
+->  Added a bash script run_benchmarks.sh that benchmarks the .c files in the project using the time 
+    command in Unix/Linux operating systems. The script measures the amount of time taken by each program to execute.

benchmarks/run_benchmark.sh

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+
+
+N=100
+total_time=0
+
+#Compile the project with optimisations
+find ./src -name "*.c" | xargs gcc -O2 -o litefm
+
+
+
+
+for i in $(seq 1 $N); do
+    echo "Running iteration $i..."
+
+     run_time=$( { time ./LiteFM; } 2>&1 | grep real | awk '{print $2}')
+     min=$(echo $run_time | cut -d'm' -f 1)
+     sec=$(echo $run_time | cut -d'm' -f 2 | sed 's/s//')
+
+     #calculate total time
+     total=$(echo "$min*60 + $sec"|bc)
+     total_time=$(echo "$total_time+ $total"|bc)
+
+done
+
+
+
+avg_time=$(echo "scale=3; $total_time/$N"|bc)
+echo "Average execution time: $avg_time seconds"