From: Nicholas Nethercote Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 23:59:40 +0000 (+0000) Subject: wibbles X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_2_0~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c294cb0283743f0694824082260d12fb10dffc4;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git wibbles git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5952 --- diff --git a/README_DEVELOPERS b/README_DEVELOPERS index 7835028399..9c63e4b284 100644 --- a/README_DEVELOPERS +++ b/README_DEVELOPERS @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Building and not installing it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - To run Valgrind without having to install it, run coregrind/valgrind with the VALGRIND_LIB environment variable set, where is the root of the source tree (and must be an absolute path). Eg: @@ -33,11 +32,11 @@ file. Eg: perl tests/vg_regtest memcheck/tests/badfree -Running the performance suite +Running the performance tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -To build and run the whole performance suite, run "make [--quiet] perf". +To build and run all the performance tests, run "make [--quiet] perf". -To run a subset of the regression tests, execute: +To run a subset of the performance suite, execute: perl perf/vg_perf @@ -49,10 +48,10 @@ file. Eg: perl perf/vg_perf perf/bz2.vgperf perl perf/vg_perf perf/bz2 -To compare multiple versions of Valgrind, use the --vg= options multiple +To compare multiple versions of Valgrind, use the --vg= option multiple times. For example, if you have two Valgrinds next to each other, one in -trunk1/ and one in trunk2/, from either trunk1/ or trunk2/ do this to -compare them on the entire suite: +trunk1/ and one in trunk2/, from within either trunk1/ or trunk2/ do this to +compare them on all the performance tests: perl perf/vg_perf --vg=../trunk1 --vg=../trunk2 perf/