Ah, thanks.  I missed the paragraph in the TestSystem.txt doc that
there were separate .perf[comp|exec]opts files.  That did it.

Greg


Lydia Duncan wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 09/30/2015 05:05 PM, Brad Chamberlain wrote:
>> Hi Greg --
>>
>>> 1. It seems that start_test -performance ignores program-specific
>>>     options in <file>.compopts and <file>.execopts, although the files
>>>     COMPOPTS and EXECOPTS are used.  When not running in performance
>>>     mode, the program-specific files are read.  Is this
>>> correct/expected?
>> I think this is currently "expected" (or at least, known) but regrettable
>> and something we'd like to fix.
>>
>> Specifically, for consistency and clarity, I believe that our
>> intention is
>> to ignore both .compopts/COMPOPTS and .execops/EXECOPTS for performance
>> testing, but that we haven't taken the time to sort through existing
>> performance tests to convert them over to this approach (e.g., by
>> creating
>> PERFCOMPOPTS/PERFEXECOPTS files for them that duplicate the contents of
>> COMPOPTS/EXECOPTS if that's what should be done).  Others should correct
>> my memory if I've got that wrong.
>>
>> Apologies for what's arguably a bad wart that we've learned to live with
>> (or ignore) and haven't had a chance to fix yet...
>>
>
> As you may have picked up from Brad's response, since performance
> testing is generally expected to be on a larger problem size and more
> optimized, we have a separate way of setting program-specific options:
> <file>.perfcompopts and <file>.perfexecopts. It is unfortunate that we
> still use the directory level COMPOPTS and EXECOPTS and something we'd
> like to move away from. I believe, though, that if there are directory
> level PERFCOMPOPTS and PERFEXECOPTS files present, the other directory
> level files will be ignored.
>
> I second Brad's response to the prediff question.
>
> Lydia

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