Re: testsuite performance

[Roumen Petrov]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Charles Wilson wrote on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:47:42PM CET:
> > > [...] EVERY separate patchset requires an independent full testsuite
> > > run.  Until recently, that was 5 hours of sitting in front of my
> > > computer waiting for popups, while that computer was completely useless
> > > for anything else (100% cpu).
[SNIP]
> > Can you work on a Linux system with Wine, for at least those
> > changes for which the difference shouldn't matter that much? 

Not sure.
To run msys bash it has to be at least wine version 1.1.8 (I forgot 
number of resolved issue). Next born shells (msys bash and ash from 
pw32) are too slow. The simple command like "sh -c echo xxx" is about 10 
times slower if compare to native run - the last wine issue is 13606.

Roumen