Stefan
for your info
SMarkHarness run: {'SMarkHarness'. 'SMarkLoops.benchIntLoop'. 1. 1. 5}
does not work.
Stef
> Hi Stef:
>
> On 16 Jun 2013, at 12:12, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I would like to know how to use SMark and document it.
>>> Do you have a start of a blog/doc/slide that I can use as a start?
>
> I am not aware of a blog post or similar things.
>
> All we got at the moment are class comments.
>
> The entry class is the benchmark harness: SMarkHarness.
>
> The benchmark SMarkSuite has also a comment, which gives minimal information
> of how to use it.
> Note that I use SMark mostly from the command line. So, it only has a limited
> set of convenience methods.
> Most of the time, I use `SMarkHarness run:` as in the example below.
>
>> I started to read the code (and its self-documentation aspect is not totally
>> there).
>> Stefan I started to comment the code so are you interested in the commits?
>
> Sure, they can always be improved. Contributions are welcome.
>
>
>> (SMarkLoops new runOnly: #benchFloatLoop) run
>
> Ehm, where did you find that? That is not supposed to work currently, because
> the benchmark suite is not independent of the rest of the infrastructure and
> needs to be initialized properly (most notably, it needs a benchmark runner,
> which actually executes the benchmarks, we use that indirection for instance
> to warm up the CogVM properly).
>
> `SMarkLoops run` is supposed to work.
> If you want a convenience method like #runOnly: it should be implemented on
> the class-side like #run.
>
> On the other hand, following the class comment of SMarkHarness, you can also
> use:
>
> SMarkHarness run: {'SMarkHarness'. 'SMarkLoops.benchFloatLoop'. 10. 1. 500}
>
> But you probably want to open a transcript first, and then execute:
> `ScriptConsole outputToTranscript: true.`.
> Otherwise, you will probably not see the output, because it goes normally
> only to stdout on the command line.
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
>
>
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