June 17, 2004
10:43 p.m.
On Jun 13, 2004, at 20:57, Guido van Rossum wrote:
[Tim]
test_zlib is much faster than it used to be <wink>.
There are a few other tests that are very slow, I believe test_thread is one.
test_thread is slow because it runs two tests who each theoretically take 10 seconds (randomly calculated based on the number of threads being run for the test; ``random.random() * numtasks``). We could either rewrite the test (test_dummy_thread was originally designed to replace it, but you didn't like the idea since test_thread had been around for so long and thus was stable) or lower the number of threads being run at a time to have it go faster. -Brett