On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Edgar J. De Cleene
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On 6/13/11 2:55 PM, "Levente Uzonyi" <
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> This one looks better. Did you run the tests before saving the image?
> I'm asking because tests may have unwanted side effects.
I know. Run after the .zip go to ftp and not save
> I guess your VM is pretty old and probably that's the cause of most of
> those failures and errors. Running the tests in this image gives the
> following list on my pc with Cog r2363:
Yes, the VM is old.
Still puzzled why different VM (Mac and Windows) give us different results.
Test don't should be VM independent ?
Not if the VM has bugs and/or limitations, and not if the tests in question specifically test VM functionality. If the VM is buggy then potentially any and all tests can fail. But more generally useful is several sets of tests that test VM functionality such as CroquetVMTests CogVMTests IslandVMTweaksTestCase STackVMTest Win32VMTest FFIPluginTests FloatMathPluginTests JPEGReadWriter2PluginTest MiscPrimitivePluginTest CompilerTests (mirror primitive tests). (Yes, these need rationalizing, but this takes time). Then as far as platform independence goes, things like the FFI and OSProcess are windows into platform specific behaviour, and so one can't expect platform independence.
HTH
Eliot
Edgar
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