> I'm with Adrian. Printing out "ok" 100,000 times shouldn't be a
> big deal unless you're reading the TAP via some sort of IP over
> clay tablets protocol. But...
My test estimate is two orders of magnitude larger, so it actually is
a big deal to capture and store those results.
But I would like to point out that there is a very low information
density in 100,000 "ok" messages. I was looking to see what folks
thought of an *optional* feature that doesn't bother outputting the
"ok" messages, just the interesting ones. Hence the "sparse".
The basic idea was that instead of:
1..10_000_000
ok 1
ok 2
...
not ok 123
...
ok 10_000_000
The output could be collapsed to the following, with no loss of
important information:
1..10_000_000 sparse
not ok 123
Yes, I could achieve this with grep, sed, Perl etc, but I thought it
might make a nice addition to TAP.
Paul.
