[webkit-dev] Some text about the B3 compiler

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
<clopez at igalia.com> wrote:
> On 31/01/16 05:16, Filip Pizlo wrote:
>> As my original message said, I was wondering if there was any support
>> for running some JavaScript tests *in browser*.  run-jsc-stress-tests
>> doesn’t support that because it doesn’t know what a browser is.
>>
>> Some tests, like Kraken, Octane, JetStream, and Speedometer, either
>> require a browser to run (like JetStream and Speedometer) or have
>> significantly different behavior in the browser than in their
>> command-line harnesses (like Kraken and Octane).  If you did have a
>> bot that ran these tests in some GTK+ or EFL browser, you’d probably
>> catch bugs that testing the JSC shell cannot catch.
>>
>> -Filip
>
> Some questions regarding this JSC in-browser benchmarks:
>
> How does the Apple port runs this? Do you use some script that is
> currently available on the WebKit source tree? Are the buildbots running
> this tests public?

We've been running those benchmarks with
http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Tools/Scripts/run-benchmark

It might be useful for Mac and other ports to have bots available on
build.webkit.org as well.

- R. Niwa