Re: [Chicken-users] long runtime of salmonella report

[Felix]

From: Alan Post <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] long runtime of salmonella report
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 16:26:45 -0700

> For the last two days, the Salmonella report has taken a
> signficantly longer time to run than it should.
> 
> The problem is the test suite for the jbogenturfa'i egg.
> I'm tracking down a significant slowdown in the program,
> where one test suite was running in 20.6 seconds on the
> 6th and took 1524.6 and 1662.0 seconds over the next
> two days, respectively.  As well, I added more tests,
> all of which are seeing the same slowdown.
> 
> This egg takes 30-60 minutes for me to compile, which
> makes my debug cycle frustratingly long.  I'm aware of
> and working on the problem, and will either remove/disable
> the tests or find and fix the problem over the next couple
> of days.
> 
> If the runtime of the salmonella report is significantly
> affecting you, please report so and I'll disable the
> jbogenturfa'i tests today.  I would like to add some timing
> tests and otherwise test using the testing system, so if
> it isn't significantly affecting you, I'd appreciate your
> patience.

Hi, Alan!

I don't know whether this is a problem (Mario?), but you could
run certain tests only when (say) an environment variable is
set, or use some other means of "parameterizing" the set of
tests executed.


cheers,
felix