Re: [RFC] testsuite/performance

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:41:37PM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> There's long been talk of storing performance-related tests in the
> testsuite itself. Here's a first crack at actually doing this. In
> preparing this patch, I did a lot of CVS/web/mailing list excavation
> (including the finding of Loren's post to switch back to the pool
> allocator on 2001-05-03, which it seems is the basis for the subsequent
> allocator tests). It was pretty interesting, but perhaps I forgot
> somethings. If so, let me know.

I just started adapting Stefan Olsson's tests, posted with his mt_alloc
patch on 4 March.  Then my machine crashed.  Should have access to my source
code again within a week or so.


> 2) Some of these tests produce large output files (75MB) (which are
> removed with make clean, of course.) Some require large input files.
> Should they be run by default?

I'm with Jerry on this:  none of them should be run by default since
baseline times won't be available anyhow.


Phil

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