nofib comparisons between 7.0.4, 7.4.2, 7.6.1, and 7.6.2

[David Terei]

On 5 February 2013 09:34, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:19 AM, David Terei <davidterei at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 5 February 2013 02:13, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I believe fibon/ was helpfully added by someone, but never integrated
>> > into
>> > the nofib build system.  Just needs doing, I think
>>
>> No I spent a fair amount of effort fixing this up about 9 months back.
>> At that stage it worked fine, I haven't run for 6 months so not sure
>> any more but they should be close to working at the least.
>
>
> Instead of trying to get fibon to work I'll try to get some of the shootout
> benchmarks into nofib. These are small micro benchmarks that shouldn't
> require anything special to run.

Agreed. The issue with the fibon folder as a whole is a lot of the
benchmarks have substantial dependencies as they are taken from
Hackage to represent real world programs. This is handled in a very
ugly fashion right now by just including a copy of the source of all
dependencies. So overtime it will always break as GHC and base
changes.

Shootout and some of them though don't have dependencies, so we should
look at moving them out of the fibon folder and enabling them by
default. After that we can look at better ways to handle the
dependencies of the remaining fibon benchmarks.

Why are you creating new shootout benchmarks though rather than simply
move the exiting Shootout folder from fibon/Shootout to the top level
and fixing the makefile?

Some of this discussion going forward may make more sense on trac.
There is trac ticket for improving nofib in general here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5793

Cheers,
David

>
> -- Johan
>