Re: [Simulavr-devel] Uniform the code

[Joel Sherrill]

Weddington, Eric wrote:
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden 
> > > > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:39 AM
> > > > To: address@hidden; '' simulavr-devel @ nongnu . org 
> > > > ''; 'Michael N . Moran'; address@hidden; 
> > > > address@hidden; Weddington, Eric
> > > > Subject: RE: [Simulavr-devel] Uniform the code
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> > > > A major increase in the number of items to allocate
> > > > would be a major increase in the allocation time.
> > > > My recollection is that simulated RAM is allocated a byte 
> > > >         
> > at a time.
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> > > > Is that correct?
> > > > If so, can it be changed?
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> > > >         
> > > I don't know if it is correct or not. If it is, then why 
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> > can't the RAM be allocated as a single object? Would that 
> > make it faster?
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> > I will wade back through all this tomorrow but it would be
> > interesting to baseline the time required to run the tests
> > now on avrtest or simulavr and go ahead and try to run them
> > on simulavrxx.  It should have all the key features for automated
> > testing now and the issue will be tests that pass on one of the
> > other simulator and fail on simulavrxx.
> >
> > Eric are you the one who runs it?
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> I used to run it on a daily basis. Now it's on an "occasional" basis. Mike 
> Stein has set up some automatic testing on the GCC Compile Farm which tests the avr on a 
> daily basis.
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I have emailed him a few times.  I don't know which targets he knows
about in detail but he runs a lot of them.
> After I wade through some higher priority stuff, I'll see about getting a 
> baseline to work from, with avrtest, and simulavrxx HEAD.
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Once the context switch code is working on rtems/avr, I should be able 
to turn on
avr-rtems testing as well.  We have a couple of quad-core machines we 
use for gcc
testing. 

--joel