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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
October 17, 2014 13:19
Subject:
Re: proposal for performance testing infrastructure
Message ID:
20141017131929.GC5204@iabyn.com
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:47:01AM -0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> 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?

I wasn't aware of it (my ISP broke my mail and managed to get me
unsubscribed from perl5-changes, which I didn't notice for a few days)
I suspect some of the things that you're testing in that file could be
tested even more easily with my count scheme, but it seems reasonbable
having a test file that can check for specific structures in the optree.

So I would rename t/op/opt.t to t/perf/optree.t say.

> 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.

Possibly ext/re/t/regop.t, and others in the same dir?

Yes, I think a test file under t/perf/ that allows you to check -D output
would be good.

NB - I'm not aware what the specific issue was was in-place uc/lc.



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