[Python-Dev] VC 7.1 maintenance?

[Brett]

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