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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