From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: vm status update Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:03:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87d4f1ea8z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <49dd78620812281450v7aa3eb69h766861052bca35a3@mail.gmail.com> <87hc4dybyk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231189500 13694 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2009 21:05:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:05:00 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 05 22:06:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LJwdE-0002lt-Rm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:05:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49754 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJwbz-0002AB-FN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJwbw-00028X-AA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJwbu-000262-GV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44677 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJwbu-00025s-Cv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56508 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJwbt-0003nT-R9 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LJwbp-0006QD-1z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:03:37 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:03:37 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:03:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 16 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Niv=F4se?= an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rZeBwWorVlicf9TQdqUN8mqW5Gk= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7966 Archived-At: Hello, Andy Wingo 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'.