Re: [eigen] Windows Testing Issues

[Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

thanks for investigating this!

These build-times are really far from great, to say it mildly ...

If you have time to further investigate this, you could start removing 
parts of each (or some) test until build-times get reasonable (i.e., 
cancel the build if it takes more than a few minutes -- depending on 
your patience). If that works reasonably well, we can further split the 
current tests into smaller ones.

On the other hand, if you find very small tests which take a lot to 
build, this could help the MSVC maintainers to look for issues in their 
compiler, or it might help us to find workarounds for this.


Also, if you have time, could you check the current development branch 
("default" in hg) and the latest 3.2 branch if there were any large 
regressions or progressions in build-time (some tests were newly 
introduced or split/renumbered between releases, though)

Cheers,
Christoph

On 11/06/2019 01.58, Rob Conde wrote:
> Ok - I ran 3.3.7 through the testing.
>
>    *   cmake ..\eigen_3.3.7 -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" -Thost=x64
>       *   I later realized that VS also uses the 32-bit toolchain by default, but I doubt it has a big effect here
>    *   ctest -C Release -D Experimental
>
> The complete build took about 22 hours. I flagged anything that took longer than ten minutes (I calculated build time as the modified time of the test minus the modified time of the previous test).
>
>    *   array_reverse_8 (16 mins)
>    *   geo_quaternion_2 (25 mins)
>    *   geo_quaternion_4 (30 mins)
>    *   mixingtypes_5 (12 mins)
>    *   product_small_3 (11 mins)
>    *   product_small_4 (23 mins)
>    *   sparse_extra_1 (98 mins)
>    *   sparse_extra_2 (215 mins)
>    *   sparse_extra_3 (105 mins)
>    *   sparse_product_1 (108 mins)
>    *   sparse_product_2 (256 mins)
>    *   sparse_product_3 (104 mins)
>
> Not sure if that list forms a pattern. I will continue investigating when i get a chance.
>
> The actual tests took...12 mins. Only 1 failed.
>
> Rob
> ________________________________
> From: Rob Conde <rob.conde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 9:53 AM
> To: eigen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [eigen] Windows Testing Issues
>
> Hey Edward,
>     I did try that quickly at one point for a single test but I don't remember seeing a big difference, but I will try to do something more comprehensive. When I get a chance (sigh) I will also see if I can distill a simple example which i can report to the visual studio team. At this point I haven't spent much time trying to find a pattern in the things that take a long time to compile, if there is one, but that would be useful too I think.
>
> Rob
> ________________________________
> From: Edward Lam <edward@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 9:03 AM
> To: eigen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [eigen] Windows Testing Issues
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 6/10/2019 7:57 AM, Rob Conde wrote:
> > This has been running for about 11 hours now (still on the build part).
> > Obviously this is a visual studio issue, but I'm not sure when it was
> > introduced. We're not seeing anything like this in the our usage of
> > Eigen...although to a smaller degree it might be hard to tease out of the larger
> > picture.
>
> It might be worthwhile trying out the latest Visual Studio 2019 just to see if
> there's any behaviour change.
>
> -Edward

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