RFR: 8342862: Gtest added by 8339507 appears to be causing 8GB build machines to hang [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:49:19 GMT, hanklo6 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We generate each test randomly. The `asmtest.out.h` is currently around 100 KB. We have added the `--full` argument to allow users to create a complete test set.
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> hanklo6 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   add instruction

What if you split into separate test files (.cpp) as well so that rather than one gtest that checks everything you have several smaller ones. That will reduce compilation overhead as required and also allow full coverage, potentially running tests in parallel.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21670#issuecomment-2434013037