Re: [boost] Interesting Article for using BoostforRemoteCallFramework

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-12 20:30:31

"Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:

> There wasn't really enough data to pin anything down.  Its going to take a 
> significant effort to gather such data.  Which raises an intereing question:
>
> Boost has a strong infrastructure for testing library correctness.  This 
> infrastructure permits comparison of libraries accross different 
> environments.
>
> If someone had nothing else to do, it would be interesting to develop a 
> parallel infrastructure for testing performance.
>
> questions are regularly posted to the list regarding performance of all the 
> libraries.  Usually, any data is largely anecdotal.   To really address 
> these questions, something more is needed.

Not long ago I built the raw facilities into bjam that are needed for
measuring the execution time of any build step (including one that
runs programs).  I need to do performance testing for the MTL rewrite,
so I'll be using that.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com