On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ronald Chaplin <t73...@t73.biz> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 09:26 -0600, David Chelimsky wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Ronald Chaplin <t73...@t73.biz> > > wrote: > > Hey all, > > So I woke up early this morning, and was running some tests > > through > > autospec, and it returned a time as follows: > > > > Finished in 0.0151600000000001 seconds > > > > I know that there are alot of other more important issues > > being > > addressed right now for the rspec project, (2.0 for Rails > > 3.0). However, > > do we really need this level of precision for spec tests? I > > know that > > it's nice to see if your refactoring made any changes in > > overall > > performance. But do we really need it carried out to 16 > > decimal places? > > Just seems like over kill to me. > > > > > > Hey Ronald, > > > > > > Is this actually causing you pain? RSpec isn't doing anything special > > to get 16 decimal places here. It just uses Timeout from the standard > > lib, which offers no API for precision. Reducing the precision would > > require additional code in RSpec, and _that_ seems like overkill to > > me :) > > Hey David, > Great book btw. I'm learning so much and it has really helped me in my > newbie days to ruby. > That's great to hear. Thanks! > No, it's not a pain. Just seemed like overkill that it would report to > such a finite decimal place is all. I guess that's the PHPer in me > ackking @ the wasted numbers :p > :) Thanks for playing! Cheers, David > -- > Ronald Chaplin <t73...@t73.biz> > T73 Biz > > > > Cheers, > > David > > > > > > One solution I had thought about was simply having a boolean > > switch > > option for rspec called precise, wherein it would print > > shortened, less > > precise times for those who wanted it. I'd even be willing to > > do the leg > > work/patches for it if this doesn't seem like a crazy idea. > > > > Just self.trying_to + something.useful? > > > > -- > > Ronald Chaplin <t73...@t73.biz> > > T73 Biz >
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