DMD needs branches

[Thomas Kuehne]

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David B. Held schrieb am 2007-04-14:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> [...]
>> Another problem is the processing power required to run those tests.
>> e.g. the DMD-1.009 run contained 6801 test cases. Most of them were run
>> in 32 different configuration ("-O", "-inline", "-O -inline", etc.)
>> resulting in 213324 tests. In total that resulted in ca. 214000 compiler
>> invocations, 138000 linker invocations and ca. 137500 executions of
>> newly generated executables.
>> [...]
>
> C'mon, Thomas!  Quit making excuses and overclock that Commodore 64 
> already!!

My test system is Turion 64 clocked at 1.6GHz with 2GB RAM. However the
tests only run with "nice -n 18" in the background thus donating hardware
might help. And yes, the testsuite has no trouble to keep all cores
in a N-cpu system (with 1 <= N <= 6000) busy.

;-P

Thomas


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