[commit: testsuite] master: Update some perf results for master (4afbacc)

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 14:11:27 UTC 2013


On 28/11/13 13:48, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.11.2013, 13:36 +0000 schrieb Simon Marlow:
>> update the test so that GHC doesn't regress again)
>>       Expected    bytes allocated: 237077056 +/-10%
>>       Lower bound bytes allocated: 213369350
>>       Upper bound bytes allocated: 260784762
>>       Actual      bytes allocated: 101150736
>>
>> Joachim: if you're building with DEBUG, that will adversely affect the
>> performance tests, so you probably shouldn't run those.
>
> ah, ok, sorry, that’s it. My bad.
>
> With these you mean perf/compiler, but probably not all perf tests,
> right? Could we mark those tests as with
>          when(compiler_debugged(),skip())
> then?

Yes, that would be good.

> At the risk of repeating my self, and especially with a ever
> growing number of contributors to GHC, especially new ones, the test
> should should give reproducible and correct results.

Of course!  If you find cases where that's not true, please go ahead and 
fix them.

Cheers,
Simon



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