On 30/11/12 03:54, Johan Tibell wrote:
While writing a new nofib benchmark today I found myself wondering
whether all the nofib benchmarks are run just before each release,
which the drove me to go look for a document describing the release
process. A quick search didn't turn up anything, so I thought I'd ask
instead. Is there a documented GHC release process? Does it include
running nofib? If not, may I propose that we do so before each release
and compare the result to the previous release*.
* This likely means that nofib has to be run for the upcoming release
and the prior release each time a release is made, as numbers don't
translate well between machines so storing the results somewhere is
likely not that useful.
I used to do this on an ad-hoc basis: the nightly builds at MSR spit out
nofib results that I compared against previous releases.
In practice you want to do this much earlier than just before a release,
because it can take time to investigate and squash any discrepancies.
On the subject of the release process, I believe Ian has a checklist
that he keeps promising to put on the wiki (nudge :)).
Cheers,
Simon
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