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Re: [RFC 0/3] GDB Performance testing
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:25:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] GDB Performance testing
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Yao Qi writes:
> This patch series implement GDB performance testing infrastructure
> according to the design I posted here
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-08/msg00380.html>
>
> Here are some highlights:
>
> - Performance testing can be run via 'make check-perf'
> - GDB and GDBServer is started by dejagnu, so the usage of
> 'make check-perf' is same as the usage of existing 'make check'.
> - Performance test result is saved in testsuite/perftest.log, which
> is appended in multiple runs.
> - Workload of each test can be customized by passing parameters to
> 'make check-perf'.
These are all great, modulo "Consistency Is Good" tells me performance
test results should overwrite perftest.log. That's what "make check" does.
One could make that configurable, but IWBN if the default behaviour
was consistent.