[LLVMdev] [llvm-testresults] bwilson__llvm-gcc_PROD__i386 nightly tester results

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Mon Jul 25 08:10:55 PDT 2011


Hi Bob,

>> A big compile time regression.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Ciao, Duncan.
>
> False alarm.  For some reason that I have not yet been able to figure out, these tests run significantly more slowly when I run them during the daytime, which I did for that run.  I checked a few of the worst regressions reported here and they all recovered in subsequent runs.

here is a crazy idea: during the day the room the computer is in is hotter,
and to avoid overheating the CPU frequency is reduced, resulting in the machine
running slower.

Ciao, Duncan.



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