[PATCH] D120875: [Driver] Split up huge aarch64-cpus.c test.
Florian Hahn via Phabricator via cfe-commits
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Thu Mar 3 01:39:46 PST 2022
fhahn added a comment.
In D120875#3356432 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120875#3356432>, @simon_tatham wrote:
>> While splitting up the test file is not ideal [...]
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> Actually I'm not so sure. I'd almost rather go further, and split it up into lots of //much// smaller files, each with some kind of reasonable theme, like "all the basically v8.1-A stuff" or "all the v8M".
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> The advantage of that is that it sets an obvious pattern for the next developer to follow – they look at the existing tests, notice there are lots of separate files, and make a fresh one rather than extending an existing one. Doing it this way, all that will happen is that one of the -1 and -2 files gets too big again in a year or two's time :-)
Agreed, more fine-grained splitting would be ideal, but unfortunately I am not familiar enough with all the intricacies of the test to perform more fine-grained splitting.
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