Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>> I'm in the same boat. Recently, I've started testing my environment when
>> things go wrong. (I blame Andy). I have one test alone that has a test
>> count of 500,000+. That's a lot of oks to be processed, when I only want
>> the ones that didn't pass.
>>
>> Now, add in a few more tests that easily go into the 50,000 range in
>> addition to 'the bi one', and waiting for the test output/TAP to be
>> parsed takes quite a while.
>>
>> Just my $0.02 worth.
> 
> I am totally unconvinced.  I would love to see some profiling on this.  I 
> would hope that the act of running 50,000 tests would swamp the cost of 
> parsing 50,000 tests.
> 
> 

Depends on what the tests are. If it's simply verifying that 500,000
pieces of data confirm to a certain format, then those kinds of tests
aren't very expensive, or long running.

Just for sake of curiosity, I'll profile one of the tests tomorrow just
to see what happens.

-=Chris

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