[Boost-testing] Re: [graph] betweenness_centrality_test takes more than 14 minutes

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-28 10:51:03

Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>
>> Ouch! I'll shrink the size of the test case so that this doesn't
>> happen. The problem is that the BGL (especially
>> betweenness_centrality) *really* needs optimization turned on to run
>> in any reasonable amount of time.
>
> It already takes something like 48 hours to run a complete boost regression 
> run on the Tru64 machine I have set aside for this. I don't want to imagine 
> how long a regression run in release mode would take... :-/

There's no guarantee that it would take longer.  For example, in debug
mode GCC tends to generate boatloads of debug symbols that slow down
linking.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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