[LLVMdev] Using the test suite to benchmark patches

[Mike Stump]

On May 21, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Any thoughts or suggestions on how to do this testing in a  
> structured manner?

I think that if what you're doing is sound, and you get the results  
you want, say, on compiling something like gcc with it and others  
review the basic idea (hi evan or chris) and like it, just checking it  
in and watching the performance numbers for the next day seems  
reasonable to me.  You can always revert the patch if there are  
unexpected downsides that make it not worth while.

If you can run something larger like spec, that'd also help.