From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:01:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there a place for benchmarking scripts?
Message-ID: <4EA98064.3060706@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <4EA7D7E3.2020009@alum.mit.edu>

Am 26.10.2011 11:50, schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> I've been doing a lot of benchmarking of git performance in the presence
> of lots of references.  I've written a few scripts to automate the
> benchmarking [1].  They are not beautiful and would require a couple of
> local adjustments [2,3].  They are too time-consuming to be made part of
> the usual test suite.  I wouldn't want to commit to maintaining them.
> But they have certainly been useful to me, and they generate readable
> output [4].
> 
> My question is: would such benchmarking scripts be welcome within the
> git project?  If so, where should I put it?  Is any benchmarking
> code/framework already in use?

That would be nice.  A whole performance regression testing suite would
be even nicer and can perhaps be built piece by piece.

We have contrib/ and we have the test-* commands; t/ doesn't seem to fit
too well with its focus on OK or fail.

René