Well at my last job, we had hundreds of test files.. and most of them were really fast because we wanted to keep the total time to a minimum. Even then, it took over five minutes to run all of our tests, and that was getting to be Too Long. So I could definitely see in a case like that that the overhead of starting a new interpreter for each file would add up
Julien On 3/9/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 09 March 2007 15:39, Julien Beasley wrote: > However, and I apologize if I'm wrong about > this, doesn't your proposed solution have to start a new perl interpreter > for every single test file? If so, that might up being too slow for > practical use. That would surprise me; I would expect that process creation time on your OS is reasonably fast and that the work done in the test files themselves would overcome startup time. -- c
