[Insight-developers] TestDriver Test

[William A. Hoffman]

It might make a small difference, but each configuration is only a small 
part of the dsp file.
I can try and see.   It will not of course help with the disk usage and 
link times.

-Bill

At 08:27 AM 3/2/2002 -0500, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>Right now, cmake generates several configurations. I think that most users 
>only use one and the others often get in the way since sometimes the wrong 
>configuration gets picked.
>
>It would be nice if the user could have cmake just generate one of these. 
>Would this have any performance improvemement?
>
>Bill
>
>At 10:55 PM 3/1/02 -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >I would not say that.   .NET is quite a bit faster at loading projects, 
> but I would think that most people
> >are not seeing 15 second load times.  I just did a quick test with 
> Visual Studio 6, and the load time
> >was 40 seconds the old way, and 25 seconds the new way.   This is also a 
> rather new machine, on
> >last years PC's load times can be over 1 minute.  So an almost 50% 
> faster load time,  is pretty good,
> >and that was only one of the directories.  There are still 160 projects 
> in the workspace, if we did all of them,
> >I would expect to see greater speed improvements.
> >
> >Also, the disk space is quite a good improvement as well, it is 3.5 
> times less disk space.
> >I have not done the timings, but I would think that if the compiler is 
> writing out 3.5 times less data, it
> >should run faster.    For perception of ITK, I think anything we can do 
> to make it more manageable
> >is a good idea.  I don't think turning off the tests by default is the 
> answer.
> >
> >
> >-Bill
> >
> >At 06:07 PM 3/1/2002 -0500, Bill Lorensen wrote:
> >>So it looks like little improvement except for disk space,
> >>
> >>Bill
> >>
> >>At 05:14 PM 3/1/02 -0500, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >>>Hi Folks-
> >>>
> >>>Just to see if the testing process we discussed on the TCON was
> >>>worth doing at all, I went ahead and converted
> >>>just the tests in BasicFilters to my approach.  Here are the results
> >>>for this one directory:
> >>>
> >>>The project load time in .NET went from 15 sec. to 8 sec. (1.2 ghz 
> processor).
> >>>The number of projects went from 240 to 160.
> >>>The binary directory went from 240 megs to 70 megs.
> >>>The TestDriver executable was only 2.8 megs.
> >>>Changing a test and re-linking/compiling showed no noticeable 
> difference in time.
> >>>
> >