
Hi, I'd like to set up a performance build bot for GHC, but before I can do that I need a script that reliably builds GHC and runs nofib. Do we have such a script? Here's a strawman proposal for one: cabal install happy alex git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git cd ghc ./sync-all --nofib get perl boot ./configure make cd nofib make clean make boot make -k mode=slow Questions: * Does this look sensible? * Is there a way to only build and run a subset of the benchmarks? * Are there any tweaks to mk/build.mk we can do to make the build faster without compromising the results? * Is there a way to do this in a cheap throwaway VM like travis-ci does? Could such a VM already provide GHC and the required libs to make the whole thing hermetic?