perf.haskell.org functional again

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

> Am 24.10.2017 um 14:46 schrieb Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de <mailto:mail at joachim-breitner.de>>:
> 
> Is CircleCI the future now?

Yes, as per

  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ContinuousIntegration <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ContinuousIntegration>

> In general, yes. But it’s running fine for now, so I would not
> prematurely throw it over.
> 
> My requirements are: 
> 
> * needs to run on every commit (not just every push), including 
>   branches.
> * needs to be able to push to a repository¹, so it needs access to 
>   some secret token for depolyment.
>   Alternatively, the CI could simply keep track of the build log
>   and the perf.haskell.org <http://perf.haskell.org/> dashboard scrapes it from there.
> * Occasionally, I find that I want to rebuild a fair number of commits
>   that are already in the repository. So a good way to trigger
>   rebuilds would be nice.

No need to mess with a working system, but as long as performance counters are the basis, I think, these constraints can all be met. In particular, CircleCI has facilities to allow deployments including managing of secrets. (That is a pretty common requirements for CIs.)

Cheers,
Manuel

> 
> Greetings,
> Joachim
> 
> ¹ https://github.com/nomeata/ghc-speed-logs/commits/master <https://github.com/nomeata/ghc-speed-logs/commits/master>
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 24.10.2017, 12:18 +1100 schrieb Manuel M T
> Chakravarty:
>> Hi Joachim,
>> 
>> Great! Just because you mention CI infrastructure and our effort around GHC CI at the moment, do you think, it would make sense to move this to CircleCI eventually?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Manuel
>> 
>>> Am 24.10.2017 um 11:02 schrieb Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de <mailto:mail at joachim-breitner.de>>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> after a system upgrade to avoid weird linker errors, and after some fixes in the nofib submodule, http://perf.haskell.org/ghc <http://perf.haskell.org/ghc> is running again.
>>> 
>>> I am collecting instruction counts instead of runtime, because the latter was just too often varying too wildly. I hope this will yield less false alarms.
>>> 
>>> I am also running nofib with mode=fast. This way, building GHC, running the testsuite and nofib takes a bit over one hour. I hope this can keep up with y'all's commits (when it took 2h it couldn't).
>>> 
>>> Now nothing of the setup requires a quiet dedicated machine, so if there is a need, we could move these builds into the cloud or into some CI infrastructure - but no changes are immediately planned.
>>> 
>>> Enjoy, Joachim 
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