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Re: [v3] Refined test instrument for container tests
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: "Stephen M. Webb" <stephen dot webb at bregmasoft dot com>
- Cc: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:08:16 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [v3] Refined test instrument for container tests
> Um, in particular the ones sitting on my hard drive undergoing
> refinement. I've slowly been working on a bunch of 23_containers tests
> like the list_* ones.
Ok well that's great news, thanks. Are you thinking of exception-type
tests a la STLPort?
> I think it's a good idea, since at least for the timer code we may need
> a linkable library and we might want to avoid littering the testsuite
> directory with proliferating source files.
Right. Hmmmmm.
> I'm not sure if the timer stuff, which is benchmarking, should be
> lumped together with the testsuite, which is validation. The testsuite
> verifies the library is correct, the benchmarking assumes correctness
> and documents efficiency. Perhaps the whole benchmarking thing should
> be a separate directory heirarchy off libstdc++-v3?
Hmm. Maybe. I suppose that's a ways off.
I guess right now just proceed as you are, and we can figure out a way of
organizing memory-limits/container-checking/benchmarking later.
-benjamin