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Re: Test::Aggregate - Speed up your test suites

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From:
Andy Armstrong
Date:
December 31, 2007 03:49
Subject:
Re: Test::Aggregate - Speed up your test suites
Message ID:
F4CB2C06-5098-4431-BF0D-318F0C8BADAD@hexten.net
On 31 Dec 2007, at 02:24, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Ovid wrote:
>> If you have slow test suites, you might want to give it a spin and  
>> see
>> if it helps.  Essentially, it concatenates tests together and runs  
>> them
>> in one process.  Thus, you load Perl only once and load all modules
>> only once.
>
> Yuck.
>
> Why not just load Perl once and fork for the execution of each test
> script.  You can pre-load modules before you fork.


"Why not replace this thing you have done which works and is useful  
with the thing I think it should be but haven't implemented"

Hey, Sam - instead of doing whatever you're doing right now come and  
clean my bathroom. That's what I'd prefer you to do.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten





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