GHA/windows: run tests in a WinXP build#17426
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There is a surprise here: Tests did run successfully, but very slowly. https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/15208036424/job/42775602819?pr=17426#step:15:3339 (there seems to be discrepancy between the time measurement summary and the Suspicious that the slow 3026 tests observed in #9412 may not be old mingw [edit: a subsequent test confirmed that performance is unchanged with or One thing to test how re-applying #17414 would change the results. Let's see. |
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Another run of this patch as applied onto #17413 (that drops one of the two dynamic DLL loads for XP builds), |
This reverts commit a0a1df5.
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Same results with the old mingw perf mitigation drop (#17414) reverted, including test 3026: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/15208745450/job/42777799811?pr=17426#step:15:3446 It feels kind of a waste of time to pursue the root cause. I'd instead be opting If someone is willing to dig deeper, this is something we can revisit. |
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Analysis of PR #17426 at a5e22517: Test 3023 failed, which has NOT been flaky recently, so there could be a real issue in this PR. Generated by Testclutch |
Absolutely - they help exactly no one. And the second the builds cause problems we can drop them rather than wasting time fixing them... |
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