Johan Corveleyn <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Noorul Islam K M <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Bert Huijben" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Branko Cibej >>>> Sent: maandag 21 februari 2011 13:19 >>>> To: Philip Martin >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] input_validation_tests.py: Reduce overhead of multiple >>>> checkouts. >>> >>>> You could argue that tiny tests that do not modify a sandbox can be >>>> merged together. Of course, if there's a bug in the implementation and >>>> one of those subtests /does/ modify the sandbox, causing another down >>>> the line to fail for no obvious reason, that hardly makes life easier >>>> for the poor sod who has to analyse that mess. >>> >>> Wasn't there some option to ask for a read-only sandbox? >>> >> >> On trunk the test already use read-only option. This patch reduces >> number of checkouts. All these tests require only read-only working >> copy. > > There's another way to make these tests go faster: we simply have to > make checkout faster :-). As in: "blazingly fast" ... > > Anyone wants to take on this bite-sized task? ;-) > > Cheers,
I assume this patch has been rejected. Thanks and Regards Noorul

