From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: "Pace is nothing without guile" Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <49dd78620807131006m4efc2a96v2d9778b6c4a501b4@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215973483 24151 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2008 18:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel To: "Neil Jerram" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 20:25:31 2008 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 1KI6GC-0005rY-Jq for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI6FK-0000JR-Er for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI6FE-0000I3-Fn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI6FA-0000Hf-1l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54448 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI6F9-0000Hc-Sq; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]:61276) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KI6F9-0003S1-N7; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id A363252A5; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:24:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Hashcash: 1:20:080713:neiljerram@googlemail.com::CANROgN+Lz0pVQea:0000000000000000000000000000000000001JZR X-Hashcash: 1:20:080713:guile-devel@gnu.org::nYJ3+zSvrSOeYb0S:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000002lFn X-Hashcash: 1:20:080713:guile-user@gnu.org::nYJ3+zSvrSOeYb0S:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000004Kt8 In-Reply-To: <49dd78620807131006m4efc2a96v2d9778b6c4a501b4@mail.gmail.com> (Neil Jerram's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:06:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:7374 gmane.lisp.guile.user:6652 Archived-At: My immediate reaction is that test suites aren't good benchmarks because we will often want to add to test suites, while changing the benchmark invalidates previous data so we will not want to change the benchmark. Now, if you mean to use the test suite as a collection of micro-benchmarks, so that we just have a rule that individual tests aren't modified without serious cause, but new ones can be added, then that makes senes.