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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
October 15, 2014 00:47
Subject:
Re: proposal for performance testing infrastructure
Message ID:
20141015004701.9432.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
Dave Mitchell wrote:
> I want to discuss some modest proposals for better testing of performance
> and optimisations. The first four suggestions are simple, concrete, and (I
> hope) non-controversial. The fifth is more woolly and up for discussion.

What you propose all sounds good to me, but please consider the
following:

As you can see, I recently added t/op/opt.t, because I was tired of
tweaking B::Concise expected output and because simple optimisations
have been broken in the past.

How would that fit into your scheme?  Should we just move it to t/perf
and just give it a more descriptive name?

Also, another broken optimisation that comes to mind is in-place lc
and uc, which we currently have no way to test.  Would it be a good
idea to add a test file that uses -D output to test optimisations (and
add some -D output for in-place lc)?  There is one that tests regexp
compilation like that already, though I don't remember its name.


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