[Pixman] [PATCH 0/9] lowlevel-blt-bench improvements for automated testing

[Ben Avison]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:32:49 +0100, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> most of the patches are trivial cleanups. The meat are the last two:
> CSV output mode and skipping the memory speed benchmark.
>
> Both new features are designed for an external benchmarking harness,
> that runs several different versions of Pixman with lowlevel-blt-bench
> in an alternating fashion. Alternating iterations are needed to get
> reliable results on platforms like the Raspberry Pi.

These look like sensible improvements to me. A few minor points:

Patch 2 commit message:
> Move explanation printing to a new file. This will help with
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Patch 8: if the aim is machine readability, I'd suggest no space after
the comma. Otherwise if comma is used as a field separator, the first
field has no leading space but all the others do, which may make things a
little more fiddly when post-processing the results with some tools.

Not really your fault, but I noticed it when trying out the new versions:
it doesn't fault an attempt to list more than one pattern on the command
line. It just acts on the last one. It should really either fault it, or
(more usefully) benchmark all of the patterns specified. This would allow
a subset of the "all" tests to be performed, sharing the same memcpy
measurement overhead, or a group of operations including those not in the
"all" list.

In other respects, happy to give my Reviewed-by:.

Ben