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+2008-02-07 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>
+
+ Reviewed by Sam.
+
+ * sunspider: add an error message when ./tests/LIST is not found
+
+2007-12-29 Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
+
+ Fix typo.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider.html:
+
+2007-12-29 Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Maciej.
+
+ Provide the current URL in the SunSpider results page. Useful for
+ copying benchmark results out of browsers without a location bar or
+ where the location bar can't handle long URLs.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html:
+
+2007-12-20 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>
+
+ Reviewed by mjs.
+
+ * sunspider: increase default number of runs for more accurate numbers
+
+2007-12-18 Mark Rowe <mrowe@apple.com>
+
+ Fix typo.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider.html:
+
+2007-12-18 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Eric.
+
+ - give an extra digit of precision for small differences.
+
+ * resources/sunspider-compare-results.js:
+
+2007-12-17 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Eric.
+
+ - work around IE layout bugs
+
+ * hosted/sunspider.css:
+
+2007-12-17 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Mark.
+
+ - fix compare feature
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html:
+
+2007-12-17 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Mark.
+
+ - Change the format of the output URL to be shorter, to meet IE constraints
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-driver.html:
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html:
+
+2007-12-13 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Oliver.
+
+ - Add some explanatory test and a dumb logo to SunSpider web hosted version
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-driver.html:
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html:
+ * hosted/sunspider.css:
+ * hosted/sunspider.html:
+
+2007-12-13 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Oliver.
+
+ - Make the web-hosted version of SunSpider look a little bit less drab.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-driver.html:
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html:
+ * hosted/sunspider.css: Added.
+ * hosted/sunspider.html:
+ * resources/TEMPLATE.html:
+
+2007-12-12 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Sam.
+
+ - Change sunspider-compare-results output from showing "% faster" values to "x as fast" values.
+
+ A sample of what new-style results would look like:
+
+ TEST COMPARISON FROM TO DETAILS
+ ...
+ ** TOTAL **: 1.41x as fast 6613.6ms +/- 0.1% 4703.0ms +/- 0.1% significant
+ ...
+ 3bit-bits-in-byte: *1.36x as slow* 88.8ms +/- 0.6% 121.1ms +/- 0.6% significant
+
+ * resources/sunspider-compare-results.js:
+
+2007-11-14 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>
+
+ Reviewed by Sam.
+
+ * sunspider: add --shark-cache for L2 Cache Miss profiling
+
+2007-11-09 Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15925
+ SunSpider should check for Shark being installed
+
+ * sunspider: Explicitly test that shark command line tool is installed.
+
+2007-11-04 Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
+
+ * hosted/sunspider.html: Tweaked formatting a bit.
+
+2007-11-03 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ - Add compare mode and a description of the benchmark to the hosted version.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html: Add compare mode - you can just paste in another results URL.
+ * hosted/sunspider.html: Added intro text.
+ * make-hosted: Copy new file.
+ * resources/sunspider-compare-results.js: Made more reusable by putting the implementation in
+ a function.
+ * resources/sunspider-standalone-compare.js: Added. Calls the function in the way standalone mode
+ expects.
+ * sunspider-compare-results: Use sunspider-standalone-compare.js.
+
+2007-11-02 Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
+
+ * sunspider: Changed "--base" to "--set-baseline".
+
+2007-11-02 Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Maciej.
+
+ * sunspider: Added a "--base" option that records the current test as a baseline.
+ Moved the code to find the newest .mshark file into a function (since I needed to use
+ it in the other script and I prefer to copy/paste a function).
+
+ * sunspider-compare-results: Added logic to compare the baseline with the last
+ run when you don't pass any parameters.
+
+2007-10-29 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Eric.
+
+ - Added list of ECMAScript3 features that SunSpider does not cover currently.
+
+ * UNCOVERED: Added.
+
+2007-10-29 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Oliver.
+
+ - Give better error messages when sunspider-compare-results fails
+
+ * sunspider-compare-results:
+
+2007-10-29 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ - fix Date tests to work in command-line SpiderMonkey
+
+ * tests/date-format-tofte.js:
+ * tests/date-format-xparb.js:
+
+2007-10-29 Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Maciej.
+
+ * sunspider: Added --shark20 option, to run Shark at its highest sample
+ resolution instead of its default.
+
+2007-10-28 Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
+
+ Fix SunSpider on Windows
+
+ Reviewed by Eric.
+
+ * sunspider: Don't use colons in filenames.
+
+2007-10-28 Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Adam.
+
+ * resources/sunspider-analyze-results.js: Tweak the output format a little.
+ Change so that when there's only one run we don't write out confidence
+ intervals at all rather than writing "NaN" over and over again.
+
+ * sunspider: Use the time and date as a suffix on the results file, that way
+ all the results are left behind in the tmp directory. This will make it easy
+ for us to add features that compare past results in the future. Also rename
+ the .mshark files using the same scheme.
+
+ * sunspider-compare-results: Relax the parsing rules so we can parse the
+ results file exactly as it's emitted from sunspider.
+
+2007-10-25 Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
+
+ Strip carriage returns from results
+
+ Carriage returns were screwing up sunspider-compare-results on
+ Windows.
+
+ Rubberstamped by Oliver.
+
+ * sunspider:
+
+2007-10-24 Darin Adler <darin@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Eric.
+
+ * sunspider: Open the profile in shark after completing a run.
+ * sunspider-compare-results: Tiny perl tweaks.
+
+2007-10-23 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ - Don't hardcode my path to testkjs
+
+ * sunspider-compare-results:
+
+2007-10-23 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ - Add a compare script to compare results, and improve formatting of standard results a bit.
+
+ * resources/sunspider-analyze-results.js:
+ * resources/sunspider-compare-results.js: Added.
+ * sunspider-compare-results: Added.
+
+2007-10-23 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ * resources/sunspider-analyze-results.js: Do the error range
+ properly, using the t-distribution instead of 1.96 (which was
+ based on the normal distribution).
+
+ * sunspider: Print results in a way that will be friendlier to the
+ soon-to-come compare mode.
+
+2007-10-22 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Review.
+
+ - add more tests (probably the final set for now)
+
+ Already balanced. Added date, regexp, control flow, and a few
+ more string and object/array access tests.
+
+ * tests/LIST:
+ * tests/access-fannkuch.js: Added.
+ * tests/access-nbody.js: Added.
+ * tests/controlflow-recursive.js: Added.
+ * tests/date-format-tofte.js: Added.
+ * tests/date-format-xparb.js: Added.
+ * tests/regexp-dna.js: Added.
+ * tests/string-validate-input.js: Added.
+
+2007-10-21 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>
+
+ Reviewed by mjs.
+
+ * sunspider: make --shark only sample from testkjs
+
+2007-10-21 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Rubber stamped by Eric.
+
+ - added crypto tests (already balanced)
+
+ * tests/LIST:
+ * tests/crypto-aes.js: Added.
+ * tests/crypto-md5.js: Added.
+ * tests/crypto-sha1.js: Added.
+
+2007-10-21 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Adam.
+
+ - rebalance new tests
+
+ Scaled the new tests so they take 400-600ms on a reasonably normal user setup:
+
+ Internet Explorer 7, Window XP, Dell Latitude D810 with a 2.13GHz Pentium M
+
+ This balances them with the existing tests.
+
+ * tests/access-binary-trees.js:
+ * tests/access-nsieve.js:
+ * tests/bitops-nsieve-bits.js:
+ * tests/math-partial-sums.js:
+ * tests/math-spectral-norm.js:
+ * tests/string-fasta.js:
+
+2007-10-20 Eric Seidel <eric@webkit.org>
+
+ Reviewed by darin.
+
+ Add improved argument handling to sunspider, including
+ --runs=<number>, --tests=<pattern, --shark, and --help
+ Also re-factor code into subroutines
+
+ * sunspider: improved argument handling
+
+2007-10-20 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Mark.
+
+ - Add more new tests, mostly from the computer language shootout. Not normalized yet.
+
+ * TODO:
+ * tests/LIST:
+ * tests/access-binary-trees.js: Added.
+ * tests/access-nsieve.js: Added.
+ * tests/bitops-nsieve-bits.js: Added.
+ * tests/math-partial-sums.js: Added.
+ * tests/math-spectral-norm.js: Added.
+ * tests/string-fasta.js: Added.
+
+2007-10-20 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ * TODO: Updated to note areas that are now well-covered.
+
+ - Change the tests and the driver to avoid leaving large object
+ graphs hanging around, since that throws off the subsequent tests.
+
+ * resources/sunspider-standalone-driver.js:
+ * tests/3d-cube.js:
+ * tests/3d-morph.js:
+ * tests/3d-raytrace.js:
+ * tests/bitops-bitwise-and.js:
+ * tests/string-base64.js:
+ * tests/string-tagcloud.js:
+
+2007-10-20 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Nikolas.
+
+ - Rebalance test complexity.
+
+ Scaled all the tests so they take 400-600ms on a reasonably normal user setup:
+
+ Internet Explorer 7, Window XP, Dell Latitude D810 with a 2.13GHz Pentium M
+
+ However, for some tests, IE7 was a huge outlier compared to other
+ major browsers. For those tests, I used Firefox 2.0.0.8 on the
+ same OS and hardware as a normalization basis.
+
+ * tests/3d-morph.js:
+ * tests/3d-raytrace.js:
+ * tests/bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte.js:
+ * tests/bitops-bits-in-byte.js:
+ * tests/bitops-bitwise-and.js:
+ * tests/math-cordic.js:
+ * tests/string-base64.js:
+ * tests/string-tagcloud.js:
+ * tests/string-unpack-code.js:
+
+2007-10-20 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Oliver.
+
+ - Fix the browser-hosted driver to be compatible with Safari 2
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-driver.html:
+
+2007-10-20 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Rubber stamped by Hyatt.
+
+ - Add BSD license notice to cordic test, the original author said to do so.
+
+ * tests/math-cordic.js:
+
+2007-10-18 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Eric.
+
+ - Support Windows and Windows browsers.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html: Display results correctly in IE.
+ * sunspider: tweaks to work on Windows, and with spaces in the path.
+
+2007-10-18 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Rubber stamped by Oliver.
+
+ * tests/string-tagcloud.js: Remove stray print()
+
+2007-10-17 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Oliver.
+
+ Add some string test cases.
+
+ * tests/string-base64.js: Added. Does base64 encoding and decoding.
+ * tests/string-tagcloud.js: Added. Parses a JSON string and
+ generates tagcloud HTML markup based on the data.
+ * tests/string-unpack-code.js: Added. Unpack compressed versions of
+ four of the most popular JavaScript libraries.
+ * tests/LIST: Added the new tests.
+
+2007-10-16 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Anders.
+
+ * TODO: Updated with info on how to do the stats properly.
+
+ * hosted/sunspider-driver.html: Reduce timeout from 500 to 200 to
+ avoid overly slowing down the benchmark.
+
+ Added some 3D-related test cases.
+
+ * tests/3d-cube.js: Added.
+ * tests/3d-morph.js: Added.
+ * tests/3d-raytrace.js: Added.
+ * tests/LIST:
+
+2007-10-14 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
+
+ Reviewed by Darin.
+
+ - New JavaScript benchmark
+ http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15515
+
+ A start on a new JavaScript benchmark, with standalone and
+ browser-hosted drivers.
+
+ The test content is still incomplete and the drivers could use
+ some more features but there is enough here to make a good start.
+
+ The drivers compute a 95% confidence interval on the mean for the
+ whole test, each category, and each individual test to make it
+ easier to tell whether differences are statistically
+ significant. The confidence interval can be narrowed by running
+ the test more times.
+
+ * TODO: Added. Remaining things that need to be done.
+ * sunspider: Added. Perl script that acts as the standalone test driver.
+ * resources/sunspider-standalone-driver.js: Added. JavaScript part
+ of standalone test driver.
+ * resources/sunspider-analyze-results.js: Added. JavaScript statistical
+ analysis code.
+ * resources/TEMPLATE.html: Added. Template for browser-hosted tests.
+ * make-hosted: Added. Script to generate browser-hosted tests.
+ * hosted/sunspider.html: Added. Start page for browser-hosted test.
+ * hosted/sunspider-driver.html: Added. Driver for browser-hosted tests.
+ * hosted/sunspider-results.html: Added. Results page for browser-hosted
+ tests.
+ * hosted/sunspider-record-result.js: Added. Helper file for browser-hosted
+ tests.
+ * tests/LIST: Added. List of tests to use.
+ * tests/bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte.js: Added. Some initial test content.
+ * tests/bitops-bits-in-byte.js: Added. Ditto.
+ * tests/bitops-bitwise-and.js: Added. Ditto.
+ * tests/math-cordic.js: Added. Ditto.
+