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Re: Random Program Generators
- To: shebs at apple dot com
- Subject: Re: Random Program Generators
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:43:36 -0700
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <38A9ABDD.14FD44FB@apple.com>you write:
> One of the useful tools for studying compiler execution times is a random
> program generator - you can use it to generate programs with lots of
> header but only small source files, etc. A cursory search of the web
> reveals only the little generator in utils/spu that I wrote years
> ago for Cygnus, but surely there must be something else. Does anybody
> know of anything that they would recommend?
I believe DEC did something like this as part of a testsuite, but it might
be useful for examining compile time issues too.
jeff