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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:37:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] multi-threaded run-tests.php
From: planetbeing@gmail.com ("David Wang")

Please.

This would be a big help to me, since I'm running these tests many,
many times a day as I develop the reference cycle collector.



On 7/24/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
> On Tue, July 24, 2007 5:24 pm, Nuno Lopes wrote:
> > Recently we have moved http://gcov.php.net to a new (and much faster)
> > server. This allowed us to reduce the time to build all branches to
> > "just" 2
> > days (compared with almost one week that would take previously).
> > However I'm still not happy :P The server has 2x2 CPU cores and I
> > would like
> > to use them :) Currently I can speed-up the make process, because it
> > can be
> > parallelized (with -j xx). But the major time is still spent with
> > run-tests.php.
> >
> > So, what I would like to propose is a multi-threaded version of
> > run-tests.php. We could spawn x processes (configurable) and one of
> > them
> > would test y extensions (I think it's better to have each extension's
> > tests
> > tested serially or they may break, because they may use the same
> > resources:
> > BDs, files, etc..).
>
> Sounds good to this naive reader.
>
> Set X high enough, and you might even find an multi-extension
> thread-safe issue we've been missing. :-v
>
> If I'm reading it right, for sure the pgsql extension tests are serial
> within the extension, as it re-uses the DB connection and presumes
> test db setup in early tests, so you're 100% right on the inability to
> parallelize that.
>
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