David Abrahams wrote:
Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> writes:
3. Compile time may become very large for large test programs or heavy template usage. E.g. in one case, we had to split a test into three (Spirit's switch_p tests) in order to make testing feasible.
It is hard to know the overall effect without accurate timings. My personal belief is that on average the total time will drop. But we need timings to know for sure.
I still can't understand why we're focused on reducing testing time.
I'd appreciate shorter testing times very much. A clean run for 1.31.0 took more than half a day here. (Having only 256MB RAM slows the compilation process down rather drastically. The actual execution time for the test programs has been a problem only on very rare occasions.) Regards, m