Messages in this thread | | | From | Άγγελος Οικονομόπουλος <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] contest benchmark v0.60 | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:08:13 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 15 January 2003 06:15, Ian Wienand wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:16:48PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Ok some mildly annoying bugs have already shown up in this release. > > > > I've put up a contest-0.61pre on the contest website that addresses the > > one which ruins the results and has some of the changes going into 0.61 > > Con/Aggelos, > > What was the motivation for re-writing in C?
I gave up trying to make the script work in my desktop, which runs freebsd (too many little differences in the utilities used).
> I've done some hacking on the old version here, and so I realise that > such a big shell script was getting a little out of hand, but surely > perl or python is a better option for this application?
The script also had a few bugs that were actually artifacts of using bash (e.g. you had to use killall instead of just killing your children).
> If it's going to stay in C maybe we could integrate profiling support > from /proc/profile, bypassing readprofile? One of the guys here > recently wanted to get profiling information from his program, and it > would have been really good to have a library that could reset, start, > pause and return in some format the profiling data. If you think your > users might be interested in profile outputs I can write something > maybe we can both use.
Feel free to do so. I won't be able to help because a) I'm not interested the feature :) b) I don't have the time, I'm just helping Con squash most of the bugs in my code.
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