Re: Release criteria - code quality...

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

>>>>> Jan Hubicka writes:

 > Mark,
 > I've just read trought your release criteria document, and I much apprechiate
 > it.  It is really great to see some process forward to the release, since I was
 > affraid from it being too late.One question I have about the code quality
 > criteria, perhaps we can base them on the benchmark suite.  Last week I've done
 > some work on it including exprimental site running periodic benchmarking after
 > each cvs checkin. Also I've reduced significantly the running time that was
 > inacceptably long after Marc's Lehman's changes and increased somewhat the
 > reliability based on the ideas from MHZ program library and by supporting the
 > rdsc and similar instructions.  I will cleanup these changes and checkin soon,
 > since I am maitainer (together with Marc).

 > Perhaps we can work together on making this suite usable for release criteria.
 > It contains number of small tests so it is quite easy to figure out whats wrong
 > and yet I believe it is superrior in testing to the gzip/stephanov benchmark
 > (at least it include stephanov benchmark and many pieces of code similar to
 > gzip) It is also able to do comparisons in code length etc.

Is the benchmarks website updated any more
(http://gcc.gnu.org/benchresults/) ?  I did like the comparison on the
web but it seems that nobody is doing this anymore.

Andreas
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