[Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nick Coghlan wrote: One thing that actually can motivate that test_subprocess takes 20% of the overall time is that this test is a good generic Python stress test - this test might catch some other startup race condition, for example. test_decimal has a short version which tests basic

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Hudson
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nick Coghlan wrote: One thing that actually can motivate that test_subprocess takes 20% of the overall time is that this test is a good generic Python stress test - this test might catch some other startup race condition, for example. test_decimal

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Tim Peters
[Fredrik Lundh] does anyone ever use the -u options when running tests? Yes -- I routinely do -uall, under both release and debug builds, but only on Windows. WinXP in particular seems to do a good job when hyper-threading is available -- running the tests doesn't slow down anything else I'm