Beman Dawes writes:
At 03:04 PM 1/14/2005, troy d. straszheim wrote:
I gotta say, this is really time-intensive work... I wonder if running regressions "by default" in both debug and release mode might not be good practice... It could be better to try to catch things like this on the way in.
That has been discussed, but some of the people who actually run the tests just don't have enough resources to double the test load.
This was not the reason why we didn't test the release configuration for 1.32 -- it was simply too late in the process when we've tried it and realized that the codebase needs non-trivial work for the results to be trusted (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/110127).
Seems like we need a way to partition the testing so that the load can be distributed.
We already do: testing a single compiler in one configuration is well within a reasonable amount of time (~2 hours, I think). We simply need to call for volunteers. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering