Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 18 February 2005 01:19, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > does anyone ever use the -u options when running tests? I use "make testall" (which invokes with -uall) regularly, and turn on specific options when they're testing something I'm working with. -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Tim Peters
[Fredrik Lundh] > does anyone ever use the -u options when running tests? Yes -- I routinely do -uall, under both release and debug builds, but only on Windows. WinXP in particular seems to do a good job when hyper-threading is available -- running the tests doesn't slow down anything else I'm do

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Hudson
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>> One thing that actually can motivate that test_subprocess takes 20% of the >>> overall time is that this test is a good generic Python stress test - this >>> test might catch some other startup race condition, for example. >>

[Python-Dev] Re: [ python-Bugs-1124637 ] test_subprocess is far tooslow (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nick Coghlan wrote: >> One thing that actually can motivate that test_subprocess takes 20% of the >> overall time is that this test is a good generic Python stress test - this >> test might catch some other startup race condition, for example. > > test_decimal has a short version which tests basic