llvm dev - Jun 2010 - [LLVMdev] Using benchmarks from SPEC (gcc, bzip2...)

I'm planning on implementing a register allocator on LLVM and I've
noticed
that the LLVM test suite supports SPEC's CINT2006 benchmarks with some
makefiles. Since SPEC seems to be way too expensive, but some (all?) of its
programs are available for free, I was thinking of making my own SPEC-based
test suite.
How hard would it be for me to integrate whole-program benchmarks in LLVM?

Thanks in advance.
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro
<silvioricardoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm planning on implementing a register allocator on LLVM and I've
noticed
> that the LLVM test suite supports SPEC's CINT2006 benchmarks with some
> makefiles. Since SPEC seems to be way too expensive, but some (all?) of its
> programs are available for free, I was thinking of making my own SPEC-based
> test suite.
> How hard would it be for me to integrate whole-program benchmarks in LLVM?
> Thanks in advance.
LLVM already has a whole-program benchmarks; see
http://llvm.org/docs/TestingGuide.html#testsuiterun .

-Eli