[PATCH] Initial instrumentation based PGO implementation

[Justin Bogner]

ping...

Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> writes:
> Must have slipped off of my radar - especially with the holidays.
> Thanks for the ping.
>
> -eric
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> wrote:
>> Eric,
>>
>> Thanks for your careful review of this.  Your comments about the
>> testing strategy have been especially helpful. This is an initial
>> patch that is going to be revised extensively before the feature is
>> finished. There are a lot of incremental changes that need to
>> happen, and at least for myself, I have been unable to contribute
>> any of those changes while we wait to get this initial patch
>> committed. It has now been almost a month since Justin first
>> submitted this patch (Dec. 1). I have carefully reviewed it twice,
>> and John (the code owner) has also reviewed it. Can you please give
>> an OK to let Justin commit this patch?
>>
>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 12:37 AM, Justin Bogner <mail at justinbogner.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I don't think we should have any executable tests in the front end at all. I
>>>> think the easiest way here would be to check in an input file alongside the
>>>> test file similar to how the Object tests work (an Inputs directory).
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> I'm a bit leery of input files, especially since the file format for the
>>> PGO stuff is explicitly in flux here. That said, writing tests the way
>>> you suggest has a number of advantages and tests that only sometimes run
>>> are clearly inferior.
>>>
>>> So I went ahead and ripped out the profile-generate part, added an input
>>> file for the profile-use part, and even added a test that we ignore
>>> bogus data, which was impossible with the previous approach.
>>>
>>> Doing so pointed out the problem with this change. The tests I had were
>>> testing two things: generating profile data, and using it. Using an
>>> input file was only the latter. That's lame, so I've added a second run
>>> line that spits out IR and checks that we're incrementing the
>>> appropriate counters for the various constructs.
>>>
>>> In short, this makes the tests *way* better. They're twice as
>>> complicated, but they're testing twice as much stuff. Check it out.
>>>
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