Newsgroups: php.internals,php.qa Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:60432 php.qa:66263 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31178 invoked from network); 3 May 2012 11:34:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 May 2012 11:34:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=laruence@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=laruence@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.220.170 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: laruence@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.170 mail-vc0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.170] ([209.85.220.170:36376] helo=mail-vx0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id AD/02-19863-24D62AF4 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 07:34:26 -0400 Received: by vcbfo14 with SMTP id fo14so1357623vcb.29 for ; Thu, 03 May 2012 04:34:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:from:in-reply-to:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mnMxv8qZ26/YBjl6dsYodft9fBh0Wxe9HoPVYFwQBco=; b=zWoQjhhYKWg5HYcZ2k84VSn6STHctZhd+okUEHvefD0EPIkITi/ixxEEsQfllnBPSH 3zqC2GAMie0H0JAO7Mi/8SHLIdtoYrAKTc/XXIR4RjrNopszkPolOqsPJMrmjAssTaBi HGVTLDwa4Ey5OM4CnxQEcARN6463xc6JtGOyv/MkyCqP/wDVgFaOZ9NHvcvlwBdfHvNs y5L/7drJC5Kaq5CnmbJ9Ul1D/sYSAWV7lanxrIDTgXXpG2XOOMXFfb6Aqp5eLvBC0IAq xVwzahqE/6u1Gz6SaGUzW7zjjpgL7g+EBGTEInPrW2xEIuU+ZhHlZc19zEGgH24NnqI/ pRCA== Received: by 10.220.210.20 with SMTP id gi20mr1046494vcb.42.1336044863254; Thu, 03 May 2012 04:34:23 -0700 (PDT) References: <4FA263EE.8060100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FA263EE.8060100@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:34:06 +0800 Message-ID: <-5684515419030392859@unknownmsgid> To: zoe slattery Cc: PHP QA , "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] running tests in parallel? From: laruence@gmail.com (Xinchen Hui) Sent from my iPhone =E5=9C=A8 2012-5-3=EF=BC=8C18:55=EF=BC=8Czoe slattery = =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > 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-t= ests.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 ou= t of time to work on it. I recently checked out the code and it still wor= ks, 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 d= o 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? > great work! I used to type make test -j. But it turns out doesnt work:( Thanks > Thanks, > Zoe > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >