Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Mar 30 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote [expressing frustrations > about Windows test suite slowness]: > > I've wondered for a while whether it wouldn't be a viable approach to > make something like an interpreter for our test suite to get around this > problem, i.e. much of it's very repetitive and just using a few shell > functions we've defined, what if we had C equivalents of those? > ... > > I don't have time or interest to work on this now, but thought it was > interesting to share. This assumes that something in shellscript like: > > while echo foo; do echo bar; done > > Is no slower on Windows than *nix, since it's purely using built-ins, as > opposed to something that would shell out. That's interesting; it certainly is appreciated to be constructive to find a usable solution.
