[boost] Re: Different results for identical (?) regressions

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-08 01:15:39

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

> Stefan Slapeta writes:
>> There are some toolsets in the regression results that are run by more
>> than one person and which produce different results!
>>
>> As example the results for vc7.1 in this table:
>> http://tinyurl.com/6zmuo
> 
> They are almost 6 hours apart, though:
> 
> RudbekAssociates  Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:14:26 +0000
> Bronek Kozicki    Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:41:05 +0000
> 
> A lot might have happened in the CVS in between.
> 
>>
>> Could somebody explain this? It's not easy to guess which one is the
>> "better" test result...
> 
> The one that has the latest timestamp.

Well, there are also two toolsets marked "mingw", and looking at output of
'config_info' test, I think they are different versions. It would be nicer
if the version has included in the toolset name...

- Volodya