quick performance measurements

[Richard Eisenberg]

I realized there is a very simple way to do what I want: --make +RTS -s

Specifically, I've arbitrarily chosen compiling Cabal as a test case, saying

> ghc-stage2 Distribution/*.hs Distribution/*/*.hs --make -fforce-recomp +RTS -s

and seeing what I get.

Richard

On Feb 12, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 12.02.2016, 14:04 -0500 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
>> Ideally, there would be a way to run a portion of the testsuite and
>> have the testsuite tool aggregate performance characteristics and
>> report.
> 
> if you run the test suite with
> $ VERBOSE=4 
> you get the detailed stats for every perf test, not only for the
> failing ones. This is what the gipeda runner does.
> 
> You’d still have to manually compare them, though; no aggregation
> happening.
> 
> Also, the compiler perf test cases usually check one specific extreme
> code path, so they are not a good measure of real world performance.
> nofib is better there, and has comparing integrated, but only checks
> those parts of the compiler that deal with idiomatic Haskell code from
> 10 or 20 years back.
> 
> Maybe I should write a text that explains how to run gipeda locally on
> a bunch of commits on a local branch... but it’s only making the
> results more shiny, not more significant, than running nofib or the
> test suite manually.
> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 
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