[fpc-devel] Good timing metric test program?

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 25.02.2019 19:16, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:
> On 25.02.2019 18:12, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
>> The compiler isn't a valid case because the input source is different 
>> (because of the very changes made to said compiler).  It needs to be 
>> a project that doesn't share anything with the compiler (except the 
>> run-time libraries), so the source code is exactly the same so that 
>> when it is built, it runs the same no matter which version of the 
>> compiler it was built with.
>>
>> I'm viewing it as a bit of a scientific experiment, where only a 
>> single variable is changed, namely the compiler used. The compiled 
>> program should produce exactly the same output and otherwise behave 
>> the same way, so that any time metrics reflect only how long it takes 
>> to complete and hence is reflective only of the quality of the 
>> machine code, not what the program is doing... if that makes any sense.
>>
>> Gareth aka. Kit
>
>
> Build Lazarus?
>

What I meant: build compiler with and without your changes and then 
compare build times for Lazarus. (So actually you compare the compiler, 
just like Marco suggested.)


Ondrej

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