qt5base-lts/tests
Thiago Macieira ea8e48a679 Update the qHash function for strings to use the CRC32 instruction
According to my profiling of Qt Creator, qHash and the SHA-1 calculation
are the hottest spots remaining in QtCore. The current qHash function is
not really vectorizable. We could come up with a different algorithm
that is more SIMD-friendly, but since we have the CRC32 instruction that
can read 32- and 64-bit entities, we're set.

This commit also updates the benchmark for QHash and benchmarks both
the hashing function itself and the QHash class. The updated
benchmarks for the CRC32 on my machine shows that the hashing function
is *always* improved, but the hashing isn't always. In particular, the
current algorithm is better for the "numbers" case, for which the data
sample differs in very few bits. The new code is 33% slower for that
particular case.

On average, the improvement (including the "numbers" case) is:

 compared to          qHash only          QHash
Qt 5.0 function          2.54x            1.06x
Qt 4.x function          4.34x            1.34x
Java function            2.71x            1.11x

Test machine: Sandybridge Core i7-2620M @ 2.66 GHz with turbo disabled
for the benchmarks

Change-Id: Ia80b98c0e20d785816f7a7f6ddf40b4b302c7297
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
2014-01-23 01:06:34 +01:00
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auto iOS: Enable building of basic tests 2014-01-22 12:35:17 +01:00
baselineserver WinRT: Fix various test compilations 2013-10-02 12:36:05 +02:00
benchmarks Update the qHash function for strings to use the CRC32 instruction 2014-01-23 01:06:34 +01:00
global tst_bic: Add linux-gcc-ia32 bic data for QtXml 2013-01-16 08:25:28 +01:00
manual Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/stable' into dev 2014-01-20 18:18:59 +01:00
shared WinRT: Fix various test compilations 2013-10-02 12:36:05 +02:00
README Doc: Fix references to Qt Test 2013-01-30 01:35:06 +01:00
tests.pro iOS: Enable building of basic tests 2014-01-22 12:35:17 +01:00

This directory contains autotests and benchmarks based on Qt Test. In order
to run the autotests reliably, you need to configure a desktop to match the
test environment that these tests are written for.

Linux X11:

   * The user must be logged in to an active desktop; you can't run the
     autotests without a valid DISPLAY that allows X11 connections.

   * The tests are run against a KDE3 or KDE4 desktop.

   * Window manager uses "click to focus", and not "focus follows mouse". Many
     tests move the mouse cursor around and expect this to not affect focus
     and activation.

   * Disable "click to activate", i.e., when a window is opened, the window
     manager should automatically activate it (give it input focus) and not
     wait for the user to click the window.