On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:35 AM, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd think Michael has the interests of CPAN smoke testers in mind with > these performance benchmarks. You're right in that for the typical > developer, it's not significant.
Just to offer a contrasting viewpoint: if you're using TDD, you're running tests *constantly*. My typical work cycle is to run a single test file (whichever one I'm working on) over and over--several times a minute--until I get to a certain point, then run a larger subset of tests to verify I haven't broken anything (perhaps a couple times an hour), then the full test suite before I check anything in. So the test speed is pretty important. The slower the tests run, the more it encourages people to delay running the tests, which in turn means more changes between test runs and longer debugging cycles. -- Buddy
