On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:57 -0400, NightStrike wrote: > On 6/22/08, Kaveh R. GHAZI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, having more languages and testsuites in the bootstrap process > > enhances the quality of GCC. I sympathize with the problems of regtest > > duration. I believe some of this could be addressed through making things > > run in parallel better. > > I think it could also be addressed with the gcc compile farm. I > thought that there was some place where we could put patches, and they > would be automatically picked up and tested by some sort of automatic > scripts.... am I dreaming about that?
Sebastian already write a script to do that, see "Automatic bootstrap and regression testing" on http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm (might not be up to date, Sebastian ?) BTW testsuite timings data on compile farm 8 core barcelona: -j8 check =c 1679.16user 568.21system 32:10.07elapsed 116%CPU -j8 =c,ada check 5748.11user 224.91system 16:11.46elapsed 614%CPU -j8 =c,c++ check 4445.12user 915.01system 33:12.87elapsed 268%CPU -j8 =c,java (,c++ implied) check 4921.19user 1068.66system 34:20.50elapsed 290%CPU Laurent