Seems eerily similar to performance I have with dcollections' unit tests. What about making the compiler more efficient?
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4900 -Steve >________________________________ >From: Don Clugston <[email protected]> >To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 5:37 AM >Subject: [phobos] Time taken for running unit tests > >I think we need to have a strategy for managing the amount of time >required for running the unittests. Currently, on Windows, the time >for all compiler tests + phobos tests is one hour. (The druntime tests >are only 30 seconds). >By contrast, running all compiler tests + phobos tests on D1, takes >about four minutes. > >I used to be able to use test-driven development extensively -- >running all tests after every change. But this is no longer viable on >D2. It's quite terrible to have to wait for one hour before finding >that you broke something. >A very large fraction of the time is used in testing only a tiny part >of the Phobos API. So I have some anxiety over what may happen in the >long term -- if current trends continue, we could easily have ten >hours of Phobos tests eventually. > >How about defining a version, eg: >version=ExtendedPhobosTests; >which contains the more exhaustive, black-box tests, which take almost >all of the time. So that the standard tests would consist of >(1) regression tests, which should have a corresponding bugzilla >entry, unless they were discovered during development of the library >(The feature of these tests, is that at some point, they failed); >and >(2) code coverage tests. > >Both of these execute quickly, and since they are linear with the >number of reported bugs + the number of lines of code, they should >always remain manageable. The black-box tests, on the other hand, are >potentially unlimited. >_______________________________________________ >phobos mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > > > _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
