On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>> So, what about this directory? Should it be renamed or purged?
>>
>
> It's got the whole test framework in it (TestCmd, TestSCons etc.) so it's
> important -- it should be renamed.  Maybe "test-framework"?
>

The first idea was TestSC, but if we aim for the lowercase consistency then
just 'testing' seems good.


>  And btw, I just added -jN to runtest.py, so per the above wiki page, we
>>> can now run the tests in parallel (with no QMTest).  With -j10 on my
>>> average dual-core laptop, the tests take about 15 minutes now, and the test
>>> results seem OK.  And we also have test timing and time reporting now, as
>>> well as out-of-core tool testing and test fixtures.  So at this point I
>>> think there's no further reason to consider QMTest.  I'll mark that wiki
>>> page as pretty much all complete now.
>>>
>>
>> I guess the next bottleneck is to speed up disk operations. Something to
>> dig about ramdisks in user space.  At least Linux looks like a capable OS.
>>
>
> Sure, why not!  I'm much happier already, so will probably move into other
> areas, but any test speedups are always welcome.  Another possibility would
> be to look at the slowest tests (use -t) and see why they are slow.  They
> may be doing unnecessary work.
>

To be honest I am more worried about my SSD longevity than speed.
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