2007/8/10, Jonathan Bober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here is a high level description of another possible idea, ignoring most > implementation details for a moment. To test the speed of my SAGE > installation, I simply run a function benchmark(). This runs lots of > test code, and probably takes at least an hour to run, and returns a > Benchmark object, say, which contains lots of information about how long > various tests took to run.
+1 I like it, here are a few more suggestions: - package compilation flags, amount of physical memory should also be recorded. Speedups can be noticeable depending on these only - sometimes things just "hang" (external processes). There should be a way for tests to gracefully exit and mark these tests as "incomplete" or just be skipped altogether. didier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---