Yep.  Makes sense that that has different needs.  It still might be worth
looking at the other harness for details since they wrestled with similar
issues about the effects of GC.

Erik


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:

> These are order-of-magnitude tests. They just try to assert that a
> micro-benchmark is linear, quadratic, etc. This makes it so they can be run
> as part of the normal layout test suite and the results mostly do not depend
> on the machine you're running them on.
>
> The inspiration for this was to give a way of adding tests when fixing bugs
> around the order-of-magnitude of a given chunk of code.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Ojan
>
>
> On 9:01 am, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ojan,
>> I thought the DOMperf testing framework that we developed does a lot of
>> the work to help compensate (or at least illustrate) variability due to
>> GC. I thought there was more of a push to start using this for new
>> benchmarks as well. Is there a reason why that doesn't work for your
>> case?
>> Erik
>>
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