the need for a bench suite

[Denys Duchier]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Is there a reason we need a benchmark, rather than just doing:
> bzr selftest --verbose

yes, the existing tests are for correctness, not for performance.  They could
certainly provide additional data, but they would have nothing to say about
e.g. the speed of "bzr log", and you certainly would not want a "bzr log" test,
in the test suite, that ran for minutes.

Cheers,

--Denys