On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:43 AM, via RT Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Eric Wilhelm > # Please include the string: [perl #57358] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57358 > > > > Hi, > > The attached patch allows testing of parrot to be parallelized via > setting an environment variable (or using make to do so) > > make test TEST_JOBS=4 > > This is a very simple patch and more work needs to be done to keep the > tests from using resources which conflict with each other. > > This doesn't attempt to cover various other forms of 'make test*' and > assorted optional testing features which could be parallelized. It > also doesn't deal with any of the languages. The reason is that every > language has its own t/harness file. > > Some simple find+replace could potentially make each of those use > Parrot::Test::Harness. > > You will need to install TAP::Harness to test in parallel. With 2 > cores, I'm seeing the following results: > > 9 jobs: > 126 wallclock secs > ( 4.17 usr 1.25 sys + 186.11 cusr 44.59 csys = 236.12 CPU) > > 3 jobs: > 142 wallclock secs > ( 4.83 usr 1.00 sys + 185.48 cusr 44.26 csys = 235.57 CPU) > > 1 job: > 275 wallclock secs > ( 3.87 usr 0.86 sys + 181.55 cusr 44.32 csys = 230.60 CPU) > > Thanks, > Eric >
Oooh, shiny. Applied in r29827. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
