[commit: ghc] master: Bump haddock.base max_bytes_used (8df7fea)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Montag, den 04.08.2014, 13:08 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Montag, den 04.08.2014, 12:02 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang:
> > Yes, on my box, this test is now failing (because the stat is too good):
> > 
> >     Expected    haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 127954488 +/-10%
> >     Lower bound haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 115159039 
> >     Upper bound haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 140749937 
> >     Actual      haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 113167424 
> >     Deviation   haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used:     -11.6 %
> 
> ugh.
> 
> What are your compilation settings? Plain "validate"?
> 
> Looks like the ghcspeed instance settings still don’t quite match what
> validate does...
> 
> But I don’t see anything in 
>         mk/validate-settings.mk
> which would yield different results than
>         echo 'GhcLibHcOpts += -O -dcore-lint'  >> mk/build.mk
>         echo 'GhcStage2HcOpts += -O -dcore-lint'  >> mk/build.mk
> 
> I’m starting a plain validate run on that machine, to see if it is
> compilation settings or some other variable.

validate goes through without a problem. So it seems to be dependent on
other things.

Are these very flaky measures (max_bytes_used) at all useful? So far, I
have only seen friction due to them, and any real problem would likely
be caught by either bytes_allocated or nofib measurements (I hope).
Maybe we should simply remove them from the test suite, and stop
worrying?

Greetings,
Joachim


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