Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of Frisby2013Q1

Timestamp:

02/24/13 13:11:09 (3 months ago)

Author:

nfrisby

Comment:

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Frisby2013Q1

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 === Core Diving ===
+
+  * use nofib's EXTRA_HC_OPTs="..." command line parameter to apply the -ddump-* flags
 
   * emacs scroll-all-mode
@@ -25 +27 @@
 
   * diff -w can highlight major changes
-    * with -dppr-cols=999999999
+    * with -dppr-cols=999999999 to changes in names or number of arguments from moving lots of things around
     * -dsuppress-uniques or sed -r 's/_[[:alnum:]]{2,4}//g' (or leave out the underscore)
       * removes ''most'' uniques
       * this sed is handy also for diffing .ticky files
+  * other diffs
+     * diff -y
+     * diff -y --suppress-common-lines
 
   * a strictly demanded let and a thunk with an unlifted type both become cases in the STG.
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 TODO and _what you can learn by looking at each one_
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+TODO "estimations of various run time consequences"
 
 === The !NoFib Experimental Method ===
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   * allocation changes probably won't require more work (unless its delicate GC stuff, I suppose)
   * for runtime, isolate the changes
-    * to evaluate a change, write a simpler test that hammers just that code in order to estimate its affect
-    * see [#Core-STG-CMM] for an estimation of run time effects
+    * to evaluate a change, write a simpler test that hammers just that code in order to estimate its consequences
+    * see [#Core-STG-CMM] for estimations of various run time consequences
     * if the change seems to be in a library, slice out the relevant code into its own module so you can mutate it to experiment