On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:30:47PM +, Fergal Daly wrote:
> I'm not sure about that 25%. Say the pmip calibrator doesn't fit in the CPU
> cache on any machine, then if the tested algorithm fits in the CPU cache on
> one machine but not on another then there will be a huge difference in the
>
* Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-04T16:51:03]
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:26:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'd say a lot of the trouble comes from the fact that you're using the
> > automated test framework for something that isn't an automated test.
>
> But it could be
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:51, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Calibration would be pretty straight forward. Just have a handful of
> loops to run known snippets of Perl and calibrate the pmip based on how long
> they take to run. This would change from Perl version to Perl version
> and platform
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:33:14PM +, Fergal Daly wrote:
> > Another useful sort of test would be "make sure this function runs in less
> > than N perlmips time" where a perlmip is some unit of CPU time calibrated
> > relative to the current hardware. So a pmip on machine A would be
> > roughl
On Thursday 04 December 2003 21:51, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> But it could be. It would be nice to have a test like "make sure the
> hand optimized version is faster than the unoptimized version" or "make sure
> the XS version is faster than the Perl version".
Yeah - this would probably be usefu
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:26:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd say a lot of the trouble comes from the fact that you're using the
> automated test framework for something that isn't an automated test.
But it could be. It would be nice to have a test like "make sure the
hand optimized ve
I'd say a lot of the trouble comes from the fact that you're using the
automated test framework for something that isn't an automated test.
You'll probably find that easiest thing to do is stick something like this
in your Makefile.PL
sub MY::postamble {
return << 'EOM';
bench: pure_all
