Emilio G. Cota <c...@braap.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:45:41 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> (snip the entire patch)
>> A couple of notes:
>>
>>   - these should use the gtester boiler plate for reporting results
>
> Done in v3.
>
>>   - AFAICT they are not exercising the multi-element hashing we actually
>>     use in the main code
>>   - it would be nice to add a check on the bucket/map distribution to
>>     defend against the algorithm being accidentally weakened with follow up 
>> patches
>
> I added tb hash chain info to 'info jit' to keep track of this. My goal
> with the test program is to check that the hash table is correct; I'd
> rather check performance with QEMU than with a made-up test, since
> it is QEMU's performance what we care about.

Fair enough. We could do with more TCG exercising test cases in the make
check but that's a different (and more difficult) problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
>               Emilio


--
Alex Bennée

Reply via email to