[Python-Dev] Trimming "make quicktest"

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at 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.

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