[PATCH] D30684: [libFuzzer] Don't use same seed for all parallel jobs

Vitaly Buka via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Mar 7 11:17:40 PST 2017


vitalybuka added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30684#694594, @kcc wrote:

> it's not easy to emulate -jobs in a script, because -jobs=N works together with -workers=M and if N > M new jos start after some old die.


And user has to go this inconvenient way if jobs and seed both are desired.

I agree that 
convenience(jobs+seed) < convenience(jobs)
complexity(jobs) < convenience(jobs)
but also 
complexity(jobs+seed) < complexity(jobs)

It's still not clear to my why complexity(jobs+seed) > convenience(jobs+seed)


https://reviews.llvm.org/D30684





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