On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Juan Lang juan.lang@gmail.com wrote:
Then the test could only be triggered in Wine. What if this "feature" gets removed again in some later version of Windows?
broken() only applies to Windows versions, Wine never succeeds with a broken feature. It really is what you want. --Juan
I'm not arguing with the behavior of broken(). I'm saying that since this feature is undocumented it's entirely possible that it could get removed in some future version of Windows*, so if we're not testing the version we wouldn't know that it got removed. We were lucky to stumble upon this thing in the first place, it's starting to look like it's not actually the issue responsible for the slowdown bug for which we are researching.
Erich Hoover ehoover@mines.edu
* Though I doubt it, as this seems like a sneaky way to make people believe that their multi-threaded apps run slower on XP,