A wild guess: String comparison primitive disabled due to jit problem

Le mer. 24 juin 2020 à 08:58, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> a
écrit :

> Forgot the time frame: I am looking for something that changed between
> 2020-06-14 and 2020-06-22.
>
> The builds run unconditionally every weekend to notice Trunk breakages
> and were fine on 2020-06-14.
>
> Am Mi., 24. Juni 2020 um 08:43 Uhr schrieb Jakob Reschke
> <forums.jakob at resfarm.de>:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Monday I noticed that some Squot tests started to fail on Travis CI
> > due to timeouts (test cases exceeding the 5 sec default timeout). The
> > problems are not due to changes in Squot itself because if I retrigger
> > an older build which was already green, it also fails. So I suspect a
> > change in Squeak Trunk, since the Squeak 5.2 builds are also not
> > affected.
> >
> > I did not yet find the cause, but would like to make known what I
> > found so far. Does anyone have an idea what could have caused this? Of
> > course I don't expect you to debug my test cases, but maybe you have a
> > hint for me.
> >
> > - The Mac builds are much more affected than the Linux builds. This
> > could be due to differences in Travis CI's setup for the operating
> > systems. The Linux test runs also got slower, but not by so much.
> > - Both the 64 bit and 32 bit Mac builds got slower. The 64 bit ones
> > scratch at the 5 sec mark, but did not exceed it yet.
> > - If I repeat older Mac builds, they experience the same slowdown.
> > - The tests on Squeak 5.2 are unaffected on either platform.
> > - Some tests take about 6x up to 20x more time than before. On Linux
> > it is only up to x3 times slower and in sum hardly noticeable. For the
> > rest of this, I will only talk about the Mac Trunk builds.
> > - testTrackingAPackage has the worst ratio, whereas testTrackingAClass
> > is virtually unaffected.
> > - Only tests that involve whole packages, not individual objects or
> > single classes, seem to be affected. Is the regression in something
> > that PackageInfo does (enumerating classes, methods, accessing
> > categories)?
> > - Surprisingly, the tests with Git are less worse than the tests with
> > a stub in-memory repository (these are the same test cases, but with a
> > different backend object). I think the Git tests by chance ran after
> > the in-memory tests, maybe that affects things, I don't know yet. The
> > Git tests did not reach the 5 sec mark.
> > - Tests that involve Monticello (such as the Monticello->Git
> > conversion) and do not only create MCDefinitions and pass them around,
> > take about 2x as long now.
> >
> > For reference:
> > Good build: https://travis-ci.org/github/hpi-swa/Squot/jobs/698280144
> > Bad build: https://travis-ci.org/github/hpi-swa/Squot/jobs/700640404
> > The runtimes are annotated to the test cases when you expand them.
> > If you do want to look at the code, just load the Git Browser, then
> > you will also have the test cases.
> >
> > If I find out more on the weekend, I will post again.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Jakob
>
>
>
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