Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 30 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote [expressing frustrations
> about Windows test suite slowness]:
>
> I've wondered for a while whether it wouldn't be a viable approach to
> make something like an interpreter for our test suite to get around this
> problem, i.e. much of it's very repetitive and just using a few shell
> functions we've defined, what if we had C equivalents of those?
> ...
>
> I don't have time or interest to work on this now, but thought it was
> interesting to share. This assumes that something in shellscript like:
>
>     while echo foo; do echo bar; done
>
> Is no slower on Windows than *nix, since it's purely using built-ins, as
> opposed to something that would shell out.

That's interesting; it certainly is appreciated to be constructive
to find a usable solution.

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