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Subject: Parallel test runs - thanks!
From: zoe.slattery@gmail.com (zoe slattery)

Hi

A few people were able to use the new run-tests.php code to run tests in 
parallel on different platforms. I've plotted the results here: 
http://zoah.co.uk/update-parallel-run-tests-php.

Thanks very much for doing that, thanks also for the bugs you found in 
doing so (blush) -  I will fix.

Interesting data, suggests that 4 processes is optimal and that the best 
we can hope for is being able to run in about 1/3rd of the time they run 
in at the moment. At some stage I will look at where it's spending its 
time and see if we can improve on these results. For now I think 
completing the implementation and fixing bugs has a higher priority for me.

Zoe