Re: Patch: FYI: small test suite change

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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?

I believe it was inspired by this:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-01/msg00297.html

Ranjit.

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