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Re: [PING] Splay tree speedup
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:11 -0500, Kazu Hirata wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> > Please pardon my ignorance, but how can I run the
> > compile-time regressions? Are they run with make
> > check?
>
> No, our regression testsuite does not check compile-time regressions. (There is
> a time-out mechanism in the testsuite, but that's to prevent gcc from running
> forever, not to detect compile-time regressions.)
>
> > Also, how are the times normalized for different hosts?
>
> I am not aware of any normalization. People pick their favorite programs and
> compile them on their own machines. There is a nice graph that CSiBE people
> maintains though:
>
> http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/csibe/s-i686-linux.php
>
For trivial patches that are supposed to be compile time speedup, people
generally run the following:
time make bootstrap
time Compile the testcase from PR 8361
For both an unpatched compiler, and a patched compiler.