[Haskell-cafe] When the gauge depends on what it measures

[Gregory Collins]

While you're benchmarking, rename the library under test and/or its
modules. Criterion won't conflict with "new-pretty".

G


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Alexander Bernauer <acopton at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently working on benchmarking the pretty library.
>
> Pretty itself has no non-trivial dependencies. But criterion and
> language-c, which I use to perform the benchmarks, directly and/or
> indirectly depend on pretty. Everything is configured in one Cabal file via
> library and benchmark sections.
>
> Now, whenever I modify pretty and want to rebuild the bench executable,
> things become messy. Either I rebuild criterion et al. as well, or the
> bench executable ends up with two different pretty version built in - if
> this is even possible.
>
> Until now I could not find a robust workflow for this scenario. At some
> point pretty "shadows" itself and the build fails (c.f. my previous caffee
> post).
>
> What is the right way to handle this scenario?
>
> Confused greetings,
>
> Alex
>
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