On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, John LaBanca <[email protected]> wrote:

> You wouldn't necessarily want to use it if the tests are going to run
> locally in hosted mode because the CPU is usually pegged anyway, but even
> then it probably wouldn't hurt because of the Timers in some UISuite tests.
>
> You would want to use it in the following cases:
>
>    - If your remote test machines are scarce (ex. a shared test
>    infrastructure), you can use "-precompile all" to compile all modules 
> before
>    sending any tests to the test machines.  This would reduce the amount of
>    time needed on the test machines.  This change also allows remote systems 
> to
>    run out of sync with each other, so one can complete before another starts.
>    - If your remote machines are slow or you have Timers in your tests,
>    you can use "-precompile parallel" to compile future modules while the
>    current one executes.  This is useful for remoteweb and selenium tests
>    because the host usually sits idle waiting for the client machines to 
> finish
>    the tests.
>
> All remote tests benefit from the -userAgents option because we current
> compile for all user agents when running remote tests, even if we connect to
> only one system.
>

Gotcha.  I guess we'll need to update doc?


> @FYI -
> jgw only reviewed a small incremental change.  fabbott and I did most of
> the review.
>

Hehe, I figured. :)

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