[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 66295] [Meta] Support w3c reftests

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66295





--- Comment #17 from Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org>  2011-11-03 10:17:55 PST ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > Ideally, I don't think we need to specially parse the files. We can add DRT infrastructure to print out the appropriate text when it encounters a reftest link element. Then run-webkit-tests can read the printed out line to know which file is the reference. This might be too much work though.
> 
> This involves modifying each port's DRT and add a similar mechanism as dumpAsText.
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> > If that's too complicated, I'd also be OK with just running a regexp over the file before we run it, but I worry that would increase the time it takes to run the test.
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> Hayato has already added a script to extract reference files using HTMLParser in fixing https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66838.
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> > In short, I'd like to see someone try the less complicated regexp approach right before we run the test and (locally!) see if it has a significant cost in the time it takes to run the full test suite.
> 
> Agreed.

I can run a couple benchmarks today and post some numbers.

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