[cairo] Re: Unreliable cairo-perf results; was Re: Mark cairo_fixed_t conversion functions with attribute(const)

Ross Burton ross at burtonini.com
Thu Mar 22 06:00:30 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:28 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hmm, would love to provide conclusive evidence showing that this change
> improves gcc's output. However I've not found any machine where
> cairo-perf gives reliable results,  e.g.

Wow, let's add that comment to all of the source files!  :)

Hm, that sucks.  I used to see chronic benchmark failure like this on a
P4, which was due to the processor speed being throttled down when the
benchmark started.  Could this be the problem?

Ross
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