arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-01
Are Performance-Optimization Benchmarks Reliably Measuring Coding Agents?
Zhi Chen, Zhensu Sun, Yuling Shi, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang
Repository-level performance-optimization benchmarks such as GSO, SWE-Perf and SWE-fficiency evaluate coding agents by applying patches to real repositories and comparing runtime against unoptimized baselines and official reference patches. Their leaderboard scores are increasing…