On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Richard Sandiford
<richard.sandif...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> writes:
>> How about also 'Ensure vectorised code doesn't regress over
>> non-vectorised code'?  The goal would be for 90 % of benchmarks to not
>> regress and 99 % to regress no more than 2 %.  At the moment good 'ol
>> CoreMark is worse with -O3 -omfpu=neon...
>
> Well, I suppose if we're setting figures like that, then it's really
> "Limit regressions in vectorised code over non-vectorised code". :-)
> But maybe it'd be better to keep figures out of it.  99% is awkward because
> I don't think we even have 100 benchmarks yet.  And what about benchmarks
> like DENbench that run the same code more than once, but with a different
> data set?  Does each data set count as a separate benchmark?

I felt a bit silly writing the 99 % thing.  How about 'Ensure
vectorised code doesn't regress over non-vectorised in almost all
cases.  Ensure vectorised doesn't regress by more than n % in all
cases.' with some type of escape clause for one benchmark which is too
hard for this cycle.

-- Michael

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