I'm pretty sure the debug builds on our CI infrastructure are built
with optimization.

- Kyle

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/19/2014 5:25 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
>>
>> Yep, the debug tests indeed take more time, mostly because they run more
>> checks.
>
>
> Actually, the bigger cause in the slowdown is probably that debug tests
> don't have any optimizations, not more checks. An atomic increment on a
> debug build invokes something like a hundred instructions (including several
> call instructions) whereas the equivalent operation on an opt build is just
> one.
>
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> Joshua Cranmer
> Thunderbird and DXR developer
> Source code archæologist
>
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