Hi,
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> >
> >> In particular:
> >>
> >> - Test case counting can be achieved by arithmetic expansion.
> >>
> >> - The name of the test, e.g. t1234, can be computed with ${0%%} and
> >> ${0##}.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I guess this makes the tests less slow on Windows? Do you have
> > numbers?
>
> Actually, while reading through test-lib.sh I found those expr
> expressions quite difficult to understand, and my primary intent was to
> make the code more readable. Furthermore, as you can see in the hunk
> that touches test_known_broken_{ok,failure}_ that the $(( )) construct
> is already in use, so it's also a change to improve consistency.
>
> The shorter runtime (primarily on Windows) is just a nice side effect,
> although the gain probably vanishes in the noise.
Actually, I should not have written that mail that late at night: 'expr'
is a bash builtin.
> > FWIW I run the tests on Windows with -j10 these days, and they take
> > about 15 minutes on a quad core 3GHz machine (which I may use from
> > time to time; the machine is not mine, otherwise it would run Linux).
>
> Last time I tried -j<something> it bailed out early. I didn't try again
> since then. Sequential tests finish in 30-40 minutes here, but I don't
> run SVN tests.
In msysGit, I updated the /share/msysGit/run-tests.sh script to make use
of -j5. If you work on a newer branch than 'devel', you most probably
need the changes from 'release-preview', as my
test-results/<basename>-<pid> patch broke the original assumption of
run-tests.sh.
Ciao,
Dscho
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