Re: Concurrency support for run-tests

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Laruence <laruence@php.net> wrote: > Hey: > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I also have a patch for run-tests sitting around for quite some time, which >> adds concurrent test execution support. I already fixed a lot of non >> re-entrant tests in the past, but there might still be quite some of them. >> >> Tests in ./Zend take 8 seconds instead of 30 on my box. >> >> Please find the hack attached. Thoughts, praises, death threats? > > seems it enable concurrency by default ? it's not configurable? > > maybe: > > TEST_PHP_ARGS="-c 3" make test > > means run 3 process sounds too make specific, a simple concurrency argument would do it. About the need of a flag for the tests, it would be useful as well. Many tests can't be in run in parallel, like many mysql tests (or other databases f.e.). cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org