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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>, Phil Haack <haacked@gmail.com>,
	Jason Frey <jfrey@redhat.com>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A potential approach to making tests faster on Windows
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:16:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180330191620.GA32338@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu4hwgfa.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 08:45:45PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I've wondered for a while whether it wouldn't be a viable approach to
> make something like an interpreter for our test suite to get around this
> problem, i.e. much of it's very repetitive and just using a few shell
> functions we've defined, what if we had C equivalents of those?

I've had a similar thought, though I wonder how far we could get with
just shell. I even tried it out with test_cmp:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20161020215647.5no7effvutwep2xt@sigill.intra.peff.net/

But Johannes Sixt pointed out that they already do this (see
mingw_test_cmp in test-lib-functions).

I also tried to explore a few numbers about process invocations to see
if running shell commands is the problem:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20161020123111.qnbsainul2g54z4z@sigill.intra.peff.net/

There was some discussion there about whether the problem is programs
being exec'd, or if it's forks due to subshells. And if it is programs
being exec'd, whether it's shell programs or if it is simply that we
exec Git a huge number of times.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-30 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29 15:18 [PATCH 0/9] Assorted fixes for `git config` (including the "empty sections" bug) Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/9] git_config_set: fix off-by-two Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 18:15   ` Stefan Beller
2018-03-29 19:41     ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 12:32       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 14:15         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-30 16:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-30 18:44             ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 19:00               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-03  9:31                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 15:29                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-04-03 15:47                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-08 23:12                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-30 16:36         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-30 18:53           ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 19:16             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-30 18:45         ` A potential approach to making tests faster on Windows Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-30 18:58           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-30 19:16           ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-04-03  9:49             ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 11:28               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-04-03 15:55                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 21:36               ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-03 11:43           ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 13:27             ` Jeff King
2018-04-03 16:00               ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-06 21:40                 ` Jeff King
2018-04-06 21:57                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-03-29 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/9] t1300: rename it to reflect that `repo-config` was deprecated Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 19:42   ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 12:37     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 15:18 ` [PATCH 3/9] t1300: avoid relying on a bug Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 19:43   ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 12:38     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 15:18 ` [PATCH 4/9] t1300: remove unreasonable expectation from TODO Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 19:52   ` Jeff King
2018-03-29 20:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-30 12:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 15:18 ` [PATCH 5/9] t1300: `--unset-all` can leave an empty section behind (bug) Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 19:54   ` Jeff King
2018-03-29 15:18 ` [PATCH 6/9] git_config_set: simplify the way the section name is remembered Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 15:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] git config --unset: remove empty sections (in normal situations) Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 21:32   ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 13:00     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 13:09       ` Jeff King
2018-03-29 15:19 ` [PATCH 8/9] git_config_set: use do_config_from_file() directly Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 21:38   ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 13:02     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 13:14       ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 14:01         ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 14:08           ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 19:04             ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 15:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] git_config_set: reuse empty sections Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 21:50   ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 13:15     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 17:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] Assorted fixes for `git config` (including the "empty sections" bug) Stefan Beller
2018-03-30 12:14   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-29 19:39 ` Jeff King
2018-03-30 12:35   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-30 14:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-30 18:46   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:27 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] " Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 01/15] git_config_set: fix off-by-two Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 02/15] t1300: rename it to reflect that `repo-config` was deprecated Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 03/15] t1300: demonstrate that --replace-all can "invent" newlines Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 04/15] config --replace-all: avoid extra line breaks Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 05/15] t1300: avoid relying on a bug Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 06/15] t1300: remove unreasonable expectation from TODO Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 07/15] t1300: `--unset-all` can leave an empty section behind (bug) Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 08/15] config: introduce an optional event stream while parsing Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-06 21:22     ` Jeff King
2018-04-09  7:35       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 09/15] config: avoid using the global variable `store` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-06 21:23     ` Jeff King
2018-04-09  7:36       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 10/15] config_set_store: rename some fields for consistency Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 11/15] git_config_set: do not use a state machine Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-06 21:28     ` Jeff King
2018-04-09  7:50       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 12/15] git_config_set: make use of the config parser's event stream Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 13/15] git config --unset: remove empty sections (in the common case) Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:29   ` [PATCH v2 14/15] git_config_set: reuse empty sections Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-03 16:30   ` [PATCH v2 00/15] Assorted fixes for `git config` (including the "empty sections" bug) Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-06 21:33   ` Jeff King
2018-04-09  8:19     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31   ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 01/15] git_config_set: fix off-by-two Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 02/15] t1300: rename it to reflect that `repo-config` was deprecated Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 03/15] t1300: demonstrate that --replace-all can "invent" newlines Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 04/15] config --replace-all: avoid extra line breaks Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 05/15] t1300: avoid relying on a bug Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 06/15] t1300: remove unreasonable expectation from TODO Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:31     ` [PATCH v3 07/15] t1300: add a few more hairy examples of sections becoming empty Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 08/15] t1300: `--unset-all` can leave an empty section behind (bug) Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 09/15] config: introduce an optional event stream while parsing Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 10/15] config: avoid using the global variable `store` Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 11/15] config_set_store: rename some fields for consistency Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 12/15] git_config_set: do not use a state machine Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 13/15] git_config_set: make use of the config parser's event stream Johannes Schindelin
2018-05-08 13:42       ` Jeff King
2018-05-08 14:00         ` Jeff King
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 14/15] git config --unset: remove empty sections (in the common case) Johannes Schindelin
2018-04-09  8:32     ` [PATCH v3 15/15] git_config_set: reuse empty sections Johannes Schindelin

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