validate takes a minute longer
Out of more than half an hour. It’s not like validate is fast enough so
#9315: Weird change in allocation numbers of T9203 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime | Version: 7.9 System | Keywords: Resolution: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Differential Revisions: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Architecture: | Test Case: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonmar): Replying to [comment:21 nomeata]: that people can actually sit and watch it. And no matter whether its 36 or 37 minutes, I guess most will stop running validate themselves and rather leave that to Phabricator or other CI stuff, precisely because validate takes so long and its convenient to let someone else do it for you. But then where do you stop? By your arguments we should be making validate run the full testsuite, which takes 3 hours or so (IIRC). When we first made validate it took 15 mins, now it takes more than double that, and we arrived here not by huge leaps, but by adding one minute at a time. So every time I see this happening, I like to question (vigorously!) whether that extra minute is paying for itself. In this case I'm not at all convinced. The point of validate is to catch bugs that will block other developers if they get committed: build breakage or serious bugs, whereas everything else we catch with the nightly builds, If there's a feeling that we should change this, then let's take that discussion to the mailing list. It's not at all clear-cut (which is why we're having this discussion!). What I'd like to see instead is one of the following: * Skip the test unless the libraries were built with -O2 * Skip the test *if* the libraries were built with -O2 * Have different results according to the optimisation levels All of which fix the perceived problem without introducing the regression in validate time. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9315#comment:23 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler