fhahn added a comment.

In D120875#3356432 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120875#3356432>, @simon_tatham 
wrote:

>> While splitting up the test file is not ideal [...]
>
> Actually I'm not so sure. I'd almost rather go further, and split it up into 
> lots of //much// smaller files, each with some kind of reasonable theme, like 
> "all the basically v8.1-A stuff" or "all the v8M".
>
> The advantage of that is that it sets an obvious pattern for the next 
> developer to follow – they look at the existing tests, notice there are lots 
> of separate files, and make a fresh one rather than extending an existing 
> one. Doing it this way, all that will happen is that one of the -1 and -2 
> files gets too big again in a year or two's time :-)

Agreed, more fine-grained splitting would be ideal, but unfortunately I am not 
familiar enough with all the intricacies of the test to perform more 
fine-grained splitting.


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