From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:28:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] test-lib: Replace uses of $(expr ...) by POSIX shell features.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903182319180.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <680eb7fed78dc2ae0268f9b3adcd5978aed3ebcf.1237410682.git.j6t@kdbg.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> In particular:
> 
> - Test case counting can be achieved by arithmetic expansion.
> 
> - The name of the test, e.g. t1234, can be computed with ${0%%} and ${0##}.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

I guess this makes the tests less slow on Windows?  Do you have numbers?

FWIW I run the tests on Windows with -j10 these days, and they take about 
15 minutes on a quad core 3GHz machine (which I may use from time to time; 
the machine is not mine, otherwise it would run Linux).

Ciao,
Dscho