Re: [ANNOUNCE] contest benchmark v0.60

From: Cliff White (cliffw@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 12:04:27 EST


> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:16:48PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Ok some mildly annoying bugs have already shown up in this release.
> >
> > I've put up a contest-0.61pre on the contest website that addresses the one
> > which ruins the results and has some of the changes going into 0.61
>
> Con/Aggelos,
>
> What was the motivation for re-writing in C?
>
> I've done some hacking on the old version here, and so I realise that
> such a big shell script was getting a little out of hand, but surely
> perl or python is a better option for this application?
>
> If it's going to stay in C maybe we could integrate profiling support
> from /proc/profile, bypassing readprofile? One of the guys here
> recently wanted to get profiling information from his program, and it
> would have been really good to have a library that could reset, start,
> pause and return in some format the profiling data. If you think your
> users might be interested in profile outputs I can write something
> maybe we can both use.
>

I'd be very interested in learning more about getting profile support in things
Might come in very handy for AIM7.
cliffw
OSDL

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>

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