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To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
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Subject: Re: 3X testsuite slow-down?
References: <4A4E9D98.2090805@vmware.com>
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:37:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4A4E9D98.2090805@vmware.com> (Michael Snyder's message of "Fri\, 03 Jul 2009 17\:08\:56 -0700")
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> writes:

Michael> Can't say if this is associated with the recent changes in the
Michael> testsuite makefiles, but it's the first thing that comes to mind.

Michael> Did anybody validate those changes without using -j?

Yeah.  And you can try it, too:

    cd $build/gdb/testsuite
    make check-single

That runs the old code.

When I do this, the old and new code (without -j) differ by a few seconds.

Tom