[GHC] #5793: make nofib awesome

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#5793: make nofib awesome
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        Reporter:  dterei                 |            Owner:  dterei
            Type:  task                   |           Status:  new
        Priority:  normal                 |        Milestone:  _|_
       Component:  NoFib benchmark suite  |          Version:
      Resolution:                         |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple       |     Architecture:
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown           |  Unknown/Multiple
       Test Case:                         |       Difficulty:  Unknown
        Blocking:  5794                   |       Blocked By:
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Changes (by rwbarton):

 * cc: rwbarton@… (added)


Comment:

 Another nofib build-system improvement I'd like to see is putting all the
 generated files off to the side in a `build/` directory. I often want to
 do two sequential nofib runs with different compiler options, and
 afterwards I might want to investigate one test (e.g. whichever one got
 slower by the most) by running the two executables with some RTS option,
 or comparing the disassembly of the two .o files, or whatever. That would
 be a lot easier if I could just `mv build/ build1/` before starting the
 second nofib run.

 I'll probably take a look at some of these projects after 7.8 is released.

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