Re: Regtest profiling differences

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, den 01.02.2020, 11:17 -0500 schrieb Dan Eble:
> On Feb 1, 2020, at 10:15, Jonas Hahnfeld <
> address@hidden
> > wrote:
> > How distracting are the profiling differences for your work? I'm
> > obviously not a big fan of reverting bc8a3fa7e4, but I also don't want
> > to block anybody else from making progress.
> 
> The log differences are more annoying than the profile differences.  I'd 
> prefer to see your hash patch ushered through the countdown faster rather 
> than see your Python 3 changes reverted.

I just found a possible workaround for the short-term:
---
commit 04a0dc897629d1606d12d54b5c0e15e9cd003652
Author: Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Feb 1 17:02:49 2020 +0100

    Disable Python's hash randomization
    
    This avoids overly many differences when profiling regtests.

diff --git a/stepmake/stepmake/generic-vars.make
b/stepmake/stepmake/generic-vars.make
index 3c482bb415..e65c4407ba 100644
--- a/stepmake/stepmake/generic-vars.make
+++ b/stepmake/stepmake/generic-vars.make
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ endif
 LANG=
 export LANG
 
+# disable Python's hash randomization until 'make check' is fixed
+PYTHONHASHSEED=0
+export PYTHONHASHSEED
+
 
 INFO_DIRECTORIES = Documentation
---

If this is ok, I can push the commit to staging and we can follow the
normal process for #5721.

Regards,
Jonas

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