On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Currently even "make quicktest" takes too long to run to be suitable >> for that task. Leaving out a couple more egregiously slow tests and >> possibly updating it to use the "-j" switch might make for a usable >> option. > > "-j" will precisely help cover the duration of these long tests. By the > way, you should use a higher "-j" number than you have CPUs, since some > tests spend most of their time sleeping and waiting. > > "make quicktest" already skips test_io and test_socket, which test > fundamental parts of Python. I would vote for removing "make quicktest" > rather than promote such a questionable command.
I'd be fine with that if we change the -j default to something other than "1" (e.g. as I suggested elsewhere, the number of cores in the machine). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
