Re: Imported wip/libmicro - Review

Jean-Yves Migeon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.review
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:59:09PM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>> I used it under different platforms @work; I think that importing it 
>> into pkgsrc might ease comparison of different environments. I am 
>> personally about to use it to compare the overhead between kernels with 
>> and without SSP enabled.
> 
> Please make sure to include a clear warning that libmicro in many parts
> is quite sensitive to compiler settings in general and compiler
> (mis)optimisations especially.

Sadly, but it is true for most benchmarks. Libmicro is merely 
benchmarking syscalls, it is less dependant to compiler 
(mis)optimisations than other benchmarks like dhrystone though.

Where should I put such warning? Inside MESSAGE?

-- 
Jean-Yves Migeon
[email protected]

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