From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] perf improvements past v1.7.10 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 12 17:09:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S77oQ-0003mi-8I for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:09:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751882Ab2CLQJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:09:23 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:54643 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751769Ab2CLQJV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:09:21 -0400 Received: by wejx9 with SMTP id x9so3386159wej.19 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:09:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=PXNOGCD4wBpyg1loe0nHbrw9Id/UXxZ1KsH0cvAvJxo=; b=GSYjzFUeI4OQdu37DUj1OjT1QOj6BnfWZSMCT3WbUMpslfRHGWtUoMyLsnHNlIYb5b pyHzNjhExqeDs5JyMLXB1KErkfS3aakdKcrwMaJHnqElB1wMMyocKhFLEKV8Xh4vG/uc pDd0zqRPLzsF7E3FqaQY+nSpaWmi3lpliY/Yl0+ZZIAYkJzP6055ikDve5sj7zu9DVXv lBFurfNEVxljQ4JSCTojou8nQl4cUc9XUIFtT3bA4D/weYeQanovjtJ7JY6vif7FEv/W r9nAQPoyUWEZUQlnamYLYt8CrNA4ykR9p6xJyX7R9Ca8x9VR7p2Gm8LbzBilvYqLYdPq ltsw== Received: by 10.180.87.8 with SMTP id t8mr28193371wiz.15.1331568560137; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvp228.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl. [83.8.213.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t20sm59904868wiv.0.2012.03.12.09.09.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q2CG9GUk024383; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:09:16 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id q2CG9FIK024380; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:09:15 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Rast writes: > This is what I have collected over a week of playing with the perf > suite. There is no rush; I am just sending them out for anyone > interested. If you plan on using the perf suite, I would still > suggest you apply them. > > Aside from the new tests, the main goal is the bisection script. > [8/11] is fun too. Try it! You will have to install GNU R however. [...] > perf/aggregate: optionally include a t-test score By the way, have you heard about Dumbbench module on CPAN? It is a module that attempts to implement reasonably robust benchmarking, trying to find and discard bad runs (outliers): http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Dumbbench It might be an easier solution (thanks to wonders of local::lib) than GNU R statistical package. [...] > perf: implement a test-selection feature > perf: add a bisection tool It looks like those last two (10/11, 11/11) didn't made it to git mailing list, probably because of anti-spam size limits of email message on vger. Do you have a public repository with this branch somewhere? -- Jakub Narebski