[Python-Dev] Trimming "make quicktest"

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 00:31 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
> 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).

You mean in the "-j" option itself or in "make test"?