Tarball of ported libmicro 0.3 available for testing...

[Chuck Swiger]

gnn at freebsd.org wrote:
> [ ... ]  The tarball is here:
> 
> http://www.codespelunking.org/downloads/libMicro.tar.gz
> 
> I plan to make a  port of this this weekend, but would like some
> feedback on this set of benchmarks.  If they're useful I think we
> should make them part of a nightly benchmarking strategy.

Very nice.  There seems to be good coverage of common tasks, and the ability to 
save and compare multiple datasets via the tool which generates HTML makes 
understanding the results relatively easy.  It would be quite interesting to 
compare a kernel built with and without INVARIANTS, WITNESS, and so forth.

By the way, this runs fine on 5.x, and seems to only need minor changes to go 
on 4.x as well using libc_r rather than -lposix.  (All but two or three of the 
microbenchmarks compile and run...)

> They are released under the CDDL (Solaris's open source license) so
> I'll need to know from someone what the issues are with that and
> ports.  Of course I'll feed my mods back  to the authors, but other
> issues might crop up.

The CDDL is a well-crafted Open Source license with strong patent protections; 
it closely resembles the MPL and is free, fair, but not GPL-miscable.  There 
shouldn't be any particular issues including it in ports or using it with 
BSD-licensed code.

I'm not sure what else one could say about it, nevertheless this link:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/

...has more information.  Did you have a more specific question?  :-)

-- 
-Chuck