Ojan,

just for your information we have disabled almost all
order-of-magnitude tests from the mozilla tests because there are
constant flakiness issues. With a garbage collected/JIT compilation
system it seems to me that something like this is bound to become
flaky.

Cheers,    -- Mads

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:48 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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