# from Jonathan Swartz
# on Friday 26 October 2007 14:49:
>This is for thirty test classes, so there's about 2 seconds of load
>overhead per class.
That's "per class + process". What's the time required to load them all
in one process and then quit before testing anything?
Now subtract that from 65s and multiply the result by 0.6, then add back
the startup time. (about 40s?, which is pretty nice considering that
parallelizing the separate process startup will likely only get down to
about 77s on two cores.)
There's not a lot of code in Test::Class, so even if making it preload-
then-fork is a difficult hack, starting over on ~400 lines shouldn't be
too daunting -- though runtests() seems to be all that's involved (and
that bit of code reads a lot like a harness.)
--Eric
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