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> chromatic wrote: >> On Friday 26 October 2007 13:05:14 Tom Heady wrote: >> >>> The method does require a single file per class, and loading perl >>> for >>> each of those files. If you are trying to avoid that it's not >>> going to >>> help. >> >> ... and if that's the slowest part of 45-minute test runs, color >> me surprised. > > Well, *my* test suite was 45 minutes. I think Jonathans is just a > couple > minutes. So depending on how many classes this could add several > seconds. It'd > be an interesting thing to benchmark though. Jonathan, are you sure > it's worth > your troubles and that you're really saving any significant amount > of time? > Yes, it was about time to benchmark it. In a single process: real 1m4.999s user 0m14.320s sys 0m2.290s In separate processes: real 2m7.747s user 0m58.960s sys 0m8.570s So I'd say that it makes a noticeable difference for tests run manually (and awaited upon), but not so much for background automated smoke tests. This is for thirty test classes, so there's about 2 seconds of load overhead per class. I've made my Test::Class subclass fairly rich in terms of utilities and automatically loaded modules, so that the individual test classes don't need to worry about use'ing this and that. Jon