On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yesterday, Robby Findler wrote: >> >> This has caused me some trouble and I'm not sure it is a good way to >> >> go, in general. Specifically, I'd like to think that our newer tests >> >> will more and more be things we'd want to compile. >> >> >> >> My desire to compile the tests is the same reason I want to compile >> >> any Racket file: so it loads faster. >> > >> > (To be clear, you're not talking about any other benefits besides >> > being able to run your tests faster, right? Since drdr (or the >> > nightly build, for those tests) will still run them and report.) >> >> I find it valuable to work with compiled racket files when I build >> racket software, tests or not. The drracket tests, in particular, have >> non-trivial libraries that go with them, more than just a sequences of >> inputs and outputs. > > (The question was what is that value, other than speed?)
Oh, yes. Speed is the only value for me with compiled files. Right. I find this a significant value as I start things up over and over and over. >> > This sounds like a very minor damage: it's only you who wants to run >> > your tests, and even that happens only when you're testing... It >> > seems that the benefit is also a minor improvement in tree setup >> > speed, but that one is done much more frequently, and by much more >> > people, so we get: minor ⋘ minor * much². Even more: I think that in >> > all cases that I ran test code, it happens while I'm editing the code >> > that is tested and/or the tests -- so I don't even get that small >> > benefit in my workflow. >> >> I thought you said that disabling the eopl tests gets most of that >> benefit. Assuming that was right, I would prefer to do that (this is >> what I was trying to say in my previous message). > > The problem is future additions. (Which is why I don't want to go > back to selective exclusions.) > > In any case: poll? For the record, I vote to allow compilation (by 'raco setup') in collects/tests/. Robby _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
