From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
Cc: Mike Stump <mrs@wrs.com>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cc1 hog 
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 21:19:00 -0000
Message-id: <4001.876367839@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971007153646.19846L-100000@vespucci.advicom.net>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00334.html

  In message < Pine.BSF.3.96.971007153646.19846L-100000@vespucci.advicom.net >you
 write:
  > The "universal" cap is useful and important.  it may be enough for
  > c-torture but other freely available test suites may not be as good a
  > fit.
So true.

  > I have spent a lot of time running the Ada Compiler Validation suite over
  > the past year or so on CPU simulators.   There is a fairly large
  > difference between the longest and shortest tests in this suite.  I have
  > always regretted that I have had to use a single time/instruction limit
  > for all tests in the suite.
Simulators certainly complicate the problem.

We're currently using a pretty gross hack --- we set slow_simulator or
some such, which causes some of the bigger tests in libstdc++/libio to
be scaled down or skipped.

jeff