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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:02:43 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ALRjnvgM6sW5ioFHtquSR6zgQHkQ6-LUnKFnqXV9eDCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610191049040.3847@virtualbox>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Junio,
>
> I know you are a fan of testing things thoroughly in the test suite, but I
> have to say that it is getting out of hand, in particular due to our
> over-use of shell script idioms (which really only run fast on Linux, not
> a good idea for a portable software).
>
> My builds of `pu` now time out, after running for 3h straight in the VM
> dedicated to perform the daily routine of building and testing the git.git
> branches in Git for Windows' SDK. For comparison, `next` passes build &
> tests in 2.6h. That is quite the jump.

I'm just curious, will running git.exe from WSL [1] help speed things
up a bit (or, hopefully, a lot)? I'm assuming that shell's speed in
WSL is quite fast.

I'm pretty sure the test suite would need some adaptation, but if the
speedup is significant, maybe it's worth spending time on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12748395
-- 
Duy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19  9:18 Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-19 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-19 20:56   ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 10:50     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-20 11:39       ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 19:54       ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:38         ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 21:53           ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:57             ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 21:56           ` Jeff King
2016-10-21  5:27           ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-21  8:24             ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 10:17   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-20 12:31     ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 16:30       ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:00         ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 23:20           ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 20:38       ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-20 21:03         ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 20:40       ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-10-21 11:03         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-20 16:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-20 17:13       ` Matthieu Moy
2016-10-20 11:02 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2016-10-20 16:40   ` René Scharfe
2016-10-21 10:59     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-21 20:28       ` René Scharfe
2016-10-21 13:10     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-10-21 19:57       ` René Scharfe
2016-10-27 20:41 ` Eric Wong
2016-10-28  6:38   ` Duy Nguyen

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