Re: Proposal: Add a benchmark section to .cabal files

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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In general, yes I think benchmarking is a sensible follow-on from test suites. We can follow the same approach of specifying a protocol so that we can add more sophisticated interfaces later as we gain experience wit them.

What do you think about the very basic interface I gave? It basically just makes it possible to create executables that are distinguishable as benchmarks. That seems like a very small step but it solves more or less all of my problems*.

Should I go ahead and implement it?

* I prefer not to use the workaround as having spurious executables confuses Hackage (which lists them) and users.

I've had decent luck with adding a benchmark as a 'test' section, which puts the executable in a predictable place.

Cheers, Johan

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