Newsgroups: php.internals,php.qa Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60431 php.qa:66262 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 28508 invoked from network); 3 May 2012 11:27:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 May 2012 11:27:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=julienpauli@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=julienpauli@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.83.42 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.83.42 mail-ee0-f42.google.com Received: from [74.125.83.42] ([74.125.83.42:55089] helo=mail-ee0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D8/81-19863-C8B62AF4 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 07:27:08 -0400 Received: by eekb57 with SMTP id b57so447503eek.29 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 04:27:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=r6DGbKAZ1+Jk1mNUQv7pYr8/TC/Y4LdqcGW/JHe6dTI=; b=bPjSzFu/4twstYICuvm1X500J5pjfZRQYXOHgyzoDoEwqF4hYBZjh0k9DZOprb/bJe dWQksjxony8gNiYDnt9D1nkizUEjH/+JtHTLAXByl45qziHAecvNSgrVhWE+YtUjdLnx ZvJPfvaiAgj7xw+jRWFKoAvmFlVpT4G9VFaeEkwjCHkZbK6VG5d82A+8LvdO7xqpKIDr S+ttEyRrquKB9aPa8pKevrtRaoLwI0D1moyaMGPFu1iBLNf4fAquyqfL5xTzen9j+l7w Qj5WVNYjuUm+bTdDThB49dlqMFsUwvzeh0C+w9mPQ928u04XxTD0TEDYtRdYKRee7hj4 P9Lg== Received: by 10.213.28.135 with SMTP id m7mr363010ebc.2.1336044425355; Thu, 03 May 2012 04:27:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com Received: by 10.213.29.83 with HTTP; Thu, 3 May 2012 04:26:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FA263EE.8060100@gmail.com> References: <4FA263EE.8060100@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 13:26:25 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: BuFzG4NgKaXeDpCe9OYeMjEK-g0 Message-ID: To: zoe slattery Cc: PHP QA , internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] running tests in parallel? From: jpauli@php.net (jpauli) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, zoe slattery wrote: > Hi > > Some years ago (in 2009) Stefan Priebsch, myself and a GSOC student worke= d > on a version of run-tests.php which would run tests in parallel - I wrote > about it here: > http://zoomsplatter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/on-no-not-more-tests.html. > > The code was complete apart from finding some way to handle REDIRECT and > does run faster on multi core systems but for various reasons we all ran = out > of time to work on it. =A0I recently checked out the code and it still = =A0works, > there are a few little things to be fixed, and of course REDIRECT still > needs to be implemented. I have some free time now and would be happy to = do > this, however, I've been fairly out of touch with PHP since 2009, so befo= re > I get on and make this work: > > (a) Would it still be helpful if the tests could be run faster? > (b) Has anyone come up with a better solution in the years since I looked= at > this? > > Thanks, > Zoe Haha, I was thinking about that while heavily testing PHP5.4, as well as writing suppression files for Valgrind reports. Ferenc told me you worked on parallel tests running, happy to see you can now probably complete the work :) :) Julien