Thanks Adam for pointing me in the righ direction. I've attempted a MR with
some questions in them [1].
However, I have no clue about what this test [2] really does (why are there
unused functions called `unusedXX` ?).
If someone could give me a quick overview, that would be great.
Cheers,
[1] MR 6457
[2] https://github.com/zachjs/ghc-issue-20261/blob/main/Parse.y
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 9:56 PM Adam Gundry
Hi Alexis,
On 29/08/2021 17:42, Alexis Praga wrote:
As a intermediate beginner in Haskell, I want to try to tackle a small issue for contributing to GHC.
Welcome! Thanks for trying your hand at contributing to GHC.
I've looked into https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/20261, but it's not clear how to integrate a running time in a regression test.
From what I understand, regression tests should be compared against sucess/failure or a given output. Should there be a hard-coded limit ? If that's the case, how could I create such a test ? I could not find a similar test in the source code.
Have a look in testsuite/tests/perf/compiler. That directory contains a number of compiler performance tests, which work by having the test runner compare metrics about the compilation run for the current commit vs. previous commits. The all.T file lists the tests to run and the metrics to collect.
There's more details on the wiki:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/building/running-tests/adding#per...
Hope this helps,
Adam
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