Re: For loop benchmarks between Octave versions

[Carnë Draug]

On 6 June 2014 17:16, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 6/6/14
>
> All,
>
> I followed up one of the recent posts about differing performance between
> Octave versions.  Alas, I think it is quite true.  We don't yet have 100%
> test coverage for behavior, but it seems like another wish list item would
> be a set of benchmarking tests so that we don't accidentally introduce
> large performance regressions.
>
> The test code in question is a double for loop.  We expect for loops to be
> inefficient and slow, but at least they shouldn't get any worse than they
> already are.

Just an idea, but would it be possible to have hydra [1] run such
checks with each commit?

Carnë

[1] https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/octave-default