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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] running tests in parallel?
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones)



On 05/03/2012 03:54 AM, zoe slattery wrote:
> Hi
>
> Some years ago (in 2009) Stefan Priebsch, myself and a GSOC student worked 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. I recently checked out the code and it still works, 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 before I get on and make this work:
>
> (a) Would it still be helpful if the tests could be run faster?

Absolutely.

> (b) Has anyone come up with a better solution in the years since I looked at this?

Practically no, though we did try to encourage some efforts from new contributors.
Also Nuno was looking at a quick hack for gcov.php.net; I'm not sure if he got
anywhere with this.

Chris

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