the need for a bench suite

[John Arbash Meinel]

Denys Duchier wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Is there a reason we need a benchmark, rather than just doing:
>>bzr selftest --verbose
> 
> 
> yes, the existing tests are for correctness, not for performance.  They could
> certainly provide additional data, but they would have nothing to say about
> e.g. the speed of "bzr log", and you certainly would not want a "bzr log" test,
> in the test suite, that ran for minutes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Denys

I agree. But should this new test be inside the main bzr branch. Because
theoretically you would want to generate/have generated a lot of data so
that you can test large trees.
And I don't think we really want bzr to carry around another 50MB just
to do benchmarking.

A benchmarking plugin would be pretty simple to write. And then it can
have the extra data.

I think having benchmarks is a good idea, though.

John
=:->

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