the need for a bench suite

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 14:33:06 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> The basic approach is that it will unpack source tarballs of various
> sizes and time bzr operations upon them.  I would like it eventually to
> know how to download the tarballs from public servers so that they don't
> need to be included in the tree.  (The distcc benchmark does that.)  For
> the moment you need to download the tarballs and put them in the pkg/
> subdirectory.
> 
> I suppose there's no strong reason why it needs to be real source code;
> we could perhaps just store a statistical description of the typical
> composition of the tree (number of files, directories, lines per file,
> chars per lines, etc.)

Is it necessary to carry the data around? Benchmarks ran on different
machines are not comparable anyway. So what about simply giving it a
branch as argument. It would start by branching that to temporary
directory and then doing other operations on that. A set of branches
considered part of 'standard' benchmark could be linked on the wiki.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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