On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 08:46:46AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 01.02.25 um 23:56 schrieb M Hickford: > > Hi. Has anyone else found that "meson test" is very slow on Windows? I > > built Git using "meson compile" with compiler MSVC and backend ninja. > > The tests are very slow on Windows in general. Yeah, it's an unfortunate reality that tests are slow on Windows. It was also mentioned that the first ~20 tests are fast. This is expected, because the unit tests execute first, and these are way faster compared to the integration tests. > Please clarify: when you say "very slow on Windows with meson", do you > then mean "slower than with a Makefile build"? Judging from my own tests there is no significant difference between the two build systems. But in case there is I'd be happy to learn about it. Patrick
