On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >Entirely independent of the "make quicktest" question, it would be >nice if the default behaviour of regrtest was updated to check the >number of cores a machine has and default to using that many processes >(leaving people to turn it down if they don't want to dedicate the >whole machine to the run). I keep forgetting to include the -j4 when I >run the tests manually, so the tests take nearly 4 times as long as >they need to (and of course, the test targets in the make file don't >use it at all, either).
It can't without some refactoring, and you can't set EXTRATESTOPTS=-j4 either because TESTOPTS includes -l and regrtest complains that -l and -j are incompatible. But I agree it would be nice if the test suite automatically took advantage of more cores where available. -Barry
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