Re: Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Oct 20, 2016, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <530a3bca-e251-cb43-fb6a-e99c1e64a0a7@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161020123111.qnbsainul2g54z4z@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 20.10.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Jeff King:

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> Close to 1/3 of those processes are just invoking the bin-wrapper
> script to set up the EXEC_PATH, etc. I imagine it would not be too hard
> to just do that in the test script. In fact, it looks like:
>
>   make prefix=/wherever install
>   GIT_TEST_INSTALLED=/wherever/bin make test
>
> might give you an immediate speedup by skipping bin-wrappers entirely.

Running the tests with --with-dashes should give you the same effect, no?

-- Hannes