Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> test_xpickle currently takes over three minutes on my MacBook Pro to
> test compatibility with Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6, and adding tests for
> the pickle module will at least double that, if not push it well above
> 10 minutes.

Ouch! A couple of minutes is already too much for a single test IMHO. I
fully agree with the desire to test as deeply as possible, but if all
modules were to become as well tested, nobody would bother running the
regression suite anymore :-)

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