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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vm status update
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:03:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4f1ea8z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3tz8dr5zg.fsf@pobox.com

Hello,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> Well, there are larger tests, in that the normal test suite passes with
> VM-compiled code (e.g. ice-9 and all that).

Yes, I remember reading that (and that is reassuring!), but I think it's
good to have unit tests for the compiler/VM too.

> And there are smaller tests, which test that VM compilation and
> execution produces the same result as interpretation. But there are no
> unit tests of the compiler itself. Also, these particular tests are not
> yet integrated with the main test suite.

I see.

> Benchmark-wise, there's not much. I am not currently running many
> benchmarks, fwiw -- been focusing more on correctness.

Maybe "we" could start focusing on that now that the VM/compiler have
matured a lot?

Thanks!

Ludo'.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 17:24 vm status update Andy Wingo
2008-12-28 22:50 ` Neil Jerram
2009-01-05 16:06   ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-01-05 16:45     ` Neil Jerram
2009-01-05 19:53       ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-01-05 17:57     ` Andy Wingo
2009-01-05 21:03       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2009-01-06  9:52         ` Andy Wingo
2009-01-06 14:54           ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-06 19:52 Andy Wingo
2009-03-06 22:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-08 22:40   ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-10 21:04     ` Andy Wingo
2009-02-14 22:32 Andy Wingo
2009-02-16 11:47 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-03-08 11:49 ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-10 21:36   ` Andy Wingo
2009-03-12 20:49     ` Neil Jerram
2009-01-11 17:35 Andy Wingo
2009-01-13  8:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-09-13 15:59 Andy Wingo

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