[PATCH] GDB/testsuite: Bump up `match_max'
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Mon May 19 14:37:00 GMT 2014
> > I wonder whether you timed the test suite?
> > The expect man page says:
> >
> > This may be changed with the function match_max. (Note that excessively
> > large values can slow down the pattern matcher.)
> >
> > If it is notably slower then it would be better to rewrite the macro
> > tests to avoid this need.
>
> Funny you would say that! I was reviewing the patch, and decided to
> do exactly that. Ran into trouble (fresh install), but almost there...
Here are the results. As I hoped, it doesn't seem to introduce
any noticeable difference (at -j16 on an 8-thread machine).
Before: 1093.79s user 153.20s system 589% cpu 3:31.68 total
After: 1097.58s user 155.08s system 589% cpu 3:32.39 total
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Joel
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