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Re: Patch: FYI: small test suite change
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, GCC libjava patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:45:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: Patch: FYI: small test suite change
- References: <87of03fmf9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com><1057786641.918.69.camel@localhost>
Mark Wielaard writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:57, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Anyway, this makes one of the tests a little more efficient, so we
> > don't time out when running it in the interpreter.
> >
> > from Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com>
> >
> > * libjava.lang/SyncTest.java (run): Cache .class value.
>
>
> This test has been very important in the past since it showed two
> problems:
> 1. That .class constructs were not cached at all.
> 2. That when doing a class lookup (and stack walk) using the interpreter
> was horribly slow (which seem to have been fixed in 3.4).
If this is fixed in 3,4, why do we need to change the test case?
Andrew.