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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:39:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: multi-threaded run-tests.php
From: rquadling@googlemail.com ("Richard Quadling")

On 25/07/07, Nuno Lopes <nlopess@php.net> wrote:
> So here it is my first attempt:
> http://gcov.php.net/~nlopess/multi_threaded_run_tests.txt
> WARNING: The patch is ugly and the output of the script isn't the prettiest.
>
> Anyway, for automated testing seems to be good enough.
>
> Nuno
>
> P.S.: after this little hack, I also start to feel that run-tests.php should
> be rewritten :P
>
>
> ""Nuno Lopes"" <nlopess@php.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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..).
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nuno

Hey Nuno, you should stop looking at things. PhD and now run-tests.
Soon you'll be taking a look at the php-src and thinking, "pah, look
what those idiots have done, time for a rewrite!". :-)


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